OH! That's what I was saying!

So the unitasking is coming along swimmingly. Multitasking seems to have been sucking away my creativity. The past few days I have been having ideas AND remembering them. I have finished my coffee every morning. I nearly have my kitchen cleaned. I have been interacting and having complete conversations with my kids.

As it turns out my Baby Huey can maintain a conversation, not just throw out adorable quips, but actual conversation. I feel horrible that I didn't know this, but today is the first day of the rest of my life, etc.

I have gained insight into myself, my life and others. Understanding a behavior makes it so much easier to change or improve. Thinking clearly is a must for all of that.

My posts for one of my other blogs have actually been purposeful and engaging.

I feel way less overwhelmed.

I am getting the same amount of stuff done, but with that little thing we like to call sanity left at the end of the day. I have even stopped dreading at night the 5 million things I have to do the next day. Sleep has been a bit better, and even my dreams are a bit more relevant.

The remarkable insight that I have gained is probably a little deeper than one likes to delve on a blog, but here goes: Photography is a subtractive art form. You use the frame to cut things out of the picture that you don't want. Sculpture is the same, you cut away the marble that isn't David and then you have a masterpiece. I have been living my life additively, which goes against my basic nature. I have decided to live subtractively. I will cut away everything that isn't Carli. Everything I have added on in my life trying to make it what I thought it should be is getting cut away. Rather than adding what I think will look good I am going to cut out the bad, the useless, the parts that go counter to who I am and what I believe. I hope to be left with a shiny new Carli, polished to near perfection, surrounded by my family, my friends, and the things that will make me and my life better.