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Do you ever feel like you want to do a major overhaul of your life? It seems that I have sort of inadvertently gotten myself into a major life overhaul, and it's motivating me to go further and shed some things that no longer serve me.

Long story short, I've accepted a new job a university close to where I live and will be moving into a new apartment on June 1st (which was already planned before the job). WAHOO! The job was a pretty unexpected opportunity that I jumped on and figured I didn't have a shot...but then I killed my interview, they offered me the job, I resigned from my current job and voila...a big change in my life!

Since then I've been having visions of all the changes I'm going to make to my life, which is a syndrome that I often get. It feels like when one change is about to happen I feel that it will be better to make a million changes and just do it all at once...and we all know how that goes - I keep it up for a few days, weeks or months but then it all slides back into my own equilibrium. Which has lots of positives, but also seems to be filled with too many desserts, a very cluttered room and an always overflowing e-mail box. So, I've decided to make some tweaks that I hope will be manageable as I go through this big transition.

1) Get my e-mail under control - with this new job, I will be giving up my main e-mail address, which has been active since college. I'm absolutely thrilled. My inbox is so utterly out of control that I don't think it's salvageable...so I'm going to go in to my new job with a plan - folders for the main pillars of my job with subfolders under them that I will USE. None of this "leave it in the inbox and don't deal with it." Delete personal banter at the end of every day, catalog everything else...I think starting fresh will be the best way to stick with this one!

2) Track my food intake - I got really bad during my recent travel season...eating everything in sight it seemed. I need to scale that back and track what I eat (I'm using Lose It! for iPhone), plus remember that when I indulge I don't need to eat 6 cookies in one day. If I can get the sugar under control I think I will end up feeling much better all around.

3) Clean out! Moving is always stressful because it creeps up on me and then I just end up throwing a ton of stuff into boxes and just moving clutter from one house to another. My mom has offered to help me clean stuff out BEFORE moving so that I can be in a better place when I get to my new apartment. I have a very short tolerance for cleaning and organizing, but I'm going to do my best!

I'm going to work on these for the next few weeks and then update you after June 1!