New Year Notes to Self

• when moving, allow yourself more than one week to pack all your life possessions, especially since you've never actually had to move this much furniture at one time
• when leaving a job, allow yourself time to finish projects, but don't do them while you're actually on vacation
• when un/packing, throw things out!
• if you haven't opened that box since you moved in the first time three years ago, you probably don't need what's in it. sort it and throw it. you'll be happier in the end
  
• don't save every scrap of paper or article you think you'll read later...you won't read it
• buy a shredder
• it's okay to sell some of your books, or give them away
• you don't need to save every piece of memorabilia that friends give you, they'll still love you
  
• it's good to give to good will
• no matter how quickly you want to start your new job, do allow yourself more than one day between positions to clear your head, but if you don't do that, be very thankful for 4 day weekends
  
• if you really feel you need to keep that 'awesome quote', then start a quote journal and write it there...then throw the paper away
• don't take hotel toiletries...you don't use them when you get home, so why take them in the first place?
• Remember to pack your gym shoes and sports stuff for the first week of work. The first week of the job will establish a practice, a discipline of sorts, and part of that must be going to the gym to walk/jog on the treadmill and to start lifting weights. It all starts there.
• sleep when you're tired, eat when you're hungry, but don't do both at the same time and don't overdo it
  
• you're starting new this week - a new year, a new life with a new job and new home - it's scarier than snot, but it will be okay. remember to breathe and to keep your head up.