As a self-proclaimed filmmaking-projecting-blogging-philosophizing-researching-designing-studying-politicizing writer and editor, I’ve began thinking it’d be a good idea to load more on my plate. Between work, play, exercise, maximized down-time and regulated sleep (alongside heavily regulated caffeine insurgence) I started to think it would be a wonderful idea to start a commercial blog, a personal blog, a ‘novel’ blog, and begin updating twitter regularly. This is of course on top of my already deep trodden (yet horrifyingly incomplete and disarrayed) myspace, facebook, linkedin, goodreads, and last.fm profiles. Writing this, I have twenty tabs in this firefox window, another with ten, thunderbird monitoring my five separate e-mail accounts, my IM client screaming any minute changes among my three screennames, Sunbird perched to remind me of my appointments, iTunes blaring the most random set of jpop-funk-rap-classical-jazz-grunge-punk, and my cell phone sitting pretty to my left just waiting for calls or maybe a few texts… I think it’s time to make a change.

Over the next one sixty days I’ll be putting forth, discussing, and instilling sixty moves towards simplifying my life.

Okay. So, while in the shower yesterday morning (listening to Anderson Cooper 360, creating a todo list, and deciding over my groceries of course!) I concluded that I may, possibly (but this is not definitive by any means) have a (slightly!) over-tasked life. I’m the type of person who reads and learns the ‘Getting Things Done’ system in an effort to add more to my behemoth of a schedule… So I’m going drastic.

Here’s the plan: My days will include suggesting an area needing change, then putting that suggestion into practice.

Why am I doing this?
Well, I need to cut, change, re-distribute, assign, and allocate the importance of everything in my life. I’m of the persuasion attempting such a feat is utterly impossible without the clarity of simplification. And besides, I’m moving to New York in sixty days. I can only bring two bags.

…My verbosity in blog posts attest to my need for simplification. We’ll address that later. Today, now… like right now marks the first day of my new journey towards simplification.