We often think about what to add.
What new things are necessary? What is missing in the plan? What other goals should be on the list?
But equally, if not more, important is what to subtract.
What goals must I remove? What stuff has cluttered the space? What bad habits must I shed? What unhelpful assumptions must I leave behind? What resentment must I let go?
When we remove the baggage that no longer serves us, we make room for what’s important.
Generally speaking, it’s a good idea to cut out and remove some of the things that are unnecessary. This may apply to the things you have at home, the activities you commit to, the work you do, the code you program, the process you follow, the memo you write. Why do we include more than it needs to be? To fill up the space with fluff? Or make it look like more work has been put into it? It’s like back in the day we used to adjust line spacing and page margin and add some BS paragraphs to make our school papers look like there are more pages. We don’t have to do that s**t anymore. We have graduated.