Wes’s Life

I con­sider myself some­what of a Min­i­mal­ist. I try to keep things simple and easy. I used to go the line of com­plex and intri­cate, but quickly real­ized that that path leads to lazi­ness and pro­cras­ti­na­tion. Keep­ing things simple keeps me work­ing because I don’t worry about taking a long amount of time. This kind of atti­tude is what lead me to use Word­Press instead of writ­ing my own. Why create some­thing that has already been made?

I have some rec­om­men­da­tions to get you started in your quest for min­i­mal­ism:

• Remove all of your icons from your desk­top except for the Recy­cling Bin, try to keep things on your Desk­top no longer than a week. Fold­ers are okay, only if you treat them just like your desk­top and empty them on a weekly basis.
• Orga­nize your Start Menu All Pro­grams folder into Cat­e­gories such as Inter­net, Util­i­ties, System, Mul­ti­me­dia and only put the icons of the appli­ca­tions you want, not the whole folder.
• Get a nice simple wall­pa­per. I rec­om­mend Deviant Art’s Min­i­mal­ist Sec­tion.
• Hide the major­ity of your System Tray icons. You don’t need to know about the major­ity of them. While some com­puter enthu­si­asts might scoff at my igno­rance of the loss of memory, I have a giga­byte of memory and it is no loss for me.
• Keep a pad of paper / post-​it notes or some­thing sim­i­lar near your desk and keep a list of things you need to do. Com­puter to do lists work just fine, but I highly rec­om­mend using paper.

While this dealt mostly with your com­puter, I will expand upon this later.