A Meaningful Life

• Andy Goldsworthy and his amazing natural art works.
• Don’t Let A Reliance on Email Kill Your Communication. It’s bloated, delayed, one-to-one and written.
• Downloading lots of whitepapers? This might help free up your hard drive - Bnet.com.

1. Pool filters - cut the hours by half in winter. Keep it clean, filter less.
2. Second fridges -keep the grill dust free and don’t cool to much beer and soft drink.
3. Oil column heaters - these devices are glacier melters. If you have a couple of these think about an alternative.
4. Leaving your computer on 24×7 - this takes down a lot more electricity over a year than I realised. In reflection, a computer should only take a minute to boot and the fresh boot feeling should pick you up those lost seconds.
5. Electric hot water - this is one of the biggest and most ignored. Lower your hot water temperature setting. If you always need to add a lot of cold to your hot bath then it’s too hot. Change to off-peak if you haven’t already. Better still, supplement/convert to solar.

If I offered you a trip to Hawaii in a years time for filling in a two page form would you take it? There’s no privacy reveal, no obligation, no catches. Nearly everyone except those who think they are worth more than $1,000 an hour would.

Changing credit card providers can acheive just that. For many years I have run a Visa card with no frequent flyers on it. I couldn’t be bothered changing. Really the cost was filling in one of those forms, I seem to get nearly every single day in the mail from all sorts of reputable banks.

Seems like a no-brainer, but I still haven’t done it.

How much of your time is spent in transition? Home to work. Desk to Water Cooler. Email to website to blog to blah.

Do we need to analyse this to work out what transition time is costing the human race? It’s a cost. I’m confident we would find a correlation between the quantity of stuff (material and mental) in our lives and transition time cost associated with it.

What transitions could you remove? What mental or physical stuff could you give up to give yourself more time and clarity on the important things in life?