Wow!! Me? Really??

A very exciting thing happened over at my email inbox today. I received this...

"Living Simply On Purpose has been nominated for the Ninjamatics' 2012 Canadian Weblog Awards in the Best Written and Life categories.

The Ninjamatics' 2012 Canadian Weblog Awards are a juried competition with nominations that are open in 35 categories between February 1st and November 31st, 2012. The nominees shortlist will be announced on January 15, 2013, and the winners will be announced on January 31, 2013. A running blogroll of the nominees is kept throughout the year so that we can highlight Canada's blogging talent. Feel free to grab a button for your website or e-mail to show off your nomination.

Congratulations, and good luck!"

Now, if you look just a little to the right and scroll up a bit you will see a fancy little icon that shows my nomination off to all the people of the world (or at least the people that wander through my blog.) You know how when someone gets nominated for something and they say "oh, it's such an honour just to be nominated..."? and you sit there and totally judge them, thinking "ya right! only people who lose say stuff like that"? Well, it's true! I am so excited that my little blog has been nominated for something that has the word AWARD attached to it. Now to sit back and wait for January to roll around and see if I make the short list. Stay tuned...

Moving on to the business of stripping. We are on weekly challenge #11 and it is a good one. We are doing some digital decluttering. This is a big one for many of us, so we're going to spend at least a couple of weeks on it. I'm talking about things like deleting all the unnecessary emails from your inbox, deleting the 3 638 bad photos sitting on your hard drive and backing up and sorting through the 283 good photos (or in my case, the 27 good ones). Clean up your desktop (your computer one, not your literal one), your documents folders, your facebook friends list - yes, that's right - it's ok to cut loose the people in your facebook friends list that don't need to be there (I realize some people will take issue with that one, and if that's you, then skip that one.) Are you with me? I am starting with my inbox. I want to put 343 emails into the appropriate folders (or trash) and try to keep my inbox at 10 emails or less each day. 

Oh, and for the record, I am not expecting to succeed at this one without many failed attempts first.

What do YOU need to strip away in your digital world?


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