What’s the harm in having an extra files. Before you started to make these changes in your life, you had all that old paper junking up your office table. You’ve summarizes them so you can find them easily. If you keep them for a month or two longer, the world will not end. You will not be a weakling. You will not have failed.

Keeping the old stuff will make it easier to move forward. If you’ve eliminated the fear factor, there are fewer reasons to not clutter. You will also build up your decision-making muscles by making decisions. True, you will know that your back up is always there, in case you make a mistake. But, as more time goes on,  and you find you don’t have to refer to your back up , you’ll feel more confident. You’ll learn to trust yourself.

We spend more time deciding which brand of tissue paper to get than on things that affect our carrer. Yet, after we have agonized over the 5 or so choices of size, brand, and color, we buy something and then don’t think about it again. We don’t put the decision and regret it for a while when w go home. Ive narrowed a bit, by only buying white. An ecologically aware girlfriend once gave me a look that could have shriveled me like a prune when I bought colored paper. It’s always stuck with me. Why would I remember that and forget important things. Once I’ve left the store, I don’t think about it again. Making a decision and accepting the outcome frees us. Not making a decision puts us in bondage to it. When I went shopping or have my grocery I usually grabbed the first package I saw. It turned out to beone-ply instead of the two ply kind of tissue paper. I’ve apparently alway bought. After all, two is always better than one, isn’t it. I didn’t like it. But I swear that’s the only time I’ve ever given much thought to toilet paper.