Unstuffing Journal

The process to unstiffing this life requres for me to create a journal to help me along the way, where better to keep it than here.
Chapter one encourages us to establish that 'you are not your stuff', it requires for a list of  49 questions to be answered, so here goes.

1. Do you often feel stuck? Yes
2. How often do you feel overwhelmed? Regularly
3. Do you ever feel that there's something else you should be doing but can't ever seem to get to it? Yes
4. Are there things you keep telling yourself you'll do as soon as some other things are finished? Yes
5. Do you ever finish those other things and actually get to the things you've put off? Not often
6. Do you ever feel caught up, as if everything on your to-do list has been checked off? No
7. Do you ever complain of being bored, or having too much time on your hands? Hardly
8. If so, how do you address that? What do you do to fill in the time? If i have spare time i procrastinate
9. Do you stop what you're doing when anyone calls and shift your attention to them? No not generally.
10. Do you do this whether its an emergency or just an everyday call? I would stop if an emergency not just for a chat.
11. Do you always agree to do a favour for someone, whether it's convenient for you or not? Sometimes
12. If so, do you ever feel put-upon or get resentful as a result? Yes sometimes
13. Do you think that saying no makes you a bad or selfish person? Sometimes 
14. Is there ever an appropriate time to say no? When? Yes if i have previous commitments.
15. Do you get resentful if people say no to you? No not generally
16. Do you take "no" personally- do you sometimes think that they might have yes to someone else under similar circumstances? No not generally
17. What's the difference between an excuse and an explanation? an excuse is giving yourself permission not to do something using either truth or lie to yourself or the person you are giving the excuse to. An explanation to someone invloves telling them of the current situation that you are in and why you cannot do what it is they want you to do.
18. Do you think you're often offering valid explanations for things and not making excuses? Sometimes excuse sometimes explanation.
19. Have you ever had a disagreement with someone over this interpretation? No
20. Does your stuff seem to have a life of its own? Sometimes
21. Do you set something down and swear it moves sometime during the night? On occasion
22. How often during a week do you misplace something you need- keys, wallet, cell phone? On occasion
23. Are you mostly upbeat, except when you think about your stuff? Generally
24. Or did you used to be, and now you just feel beaten down?
25. Do you have piles of papers around but swear you can't find anything in them? Yes
26. Have you ever freaked out- become panicky or unreasonably upset- when someone has moved your stuff? No
27. Have you ever lost something that was important to you because someone confused it for trash? Not regularly
28. If that has happened, do you feel partly responsible or are you the victim of someone else's mistarke? Feel responsible
29. Do you get nervous when the phone rings? No
30. Do you screen your calls? Sometimes
31. Has stuff made living in your home challenging? Can do
32. Does your stuff seem to force you into smaller and smaller living spaces? Not really
33. Do you sleep to one side of your bed because you have a pile of stuff nect to you? No
34. Do you sometimes have difficulty breathing? Not regularly
35. Do you spend more time looking for things than doing the things you love? Not really
36. Is looking for things threatening to overtake your passions? No
37. Are you often just a few minutes late to get someehere? No not regularly
38. Do you tell yourself that being late is no big deal? I dislike being late
39. Do you think that the people you love are more important than your stuff? Yes they are
40. If someone looked only at your behaviour, would they objectively see that? Not necesarily
41. When you are feeling blue, do you think that shopping will get you out of your funk? I do but i hardly give in to it.
42. Does the act of buying something give you a warm and fuzzy feeling? It can
43. Have you ever said "i'd die without ___________?" Yes
44. If  you've said the previous sentence, were you talking about a person or a thing? A person
45. Do you often speak in absolutes (I always or I never)? Sometimes.
46. Do you have stories about most of the things you own? Some of them
47. Do you like to tell them to your friends or family? How about strangers? Anyone who'll listen? Not often
48. Do they find the stories as fascinating as you do? Rarely
49. Do you think you spend more time talking about stuff or about things you've done or plan to do? I think so.

So there are the answers to the list of questions. Now what's next.

The next part goes on to give a great explanation of what 'stuff' actaully is:

Stuff (noun):
Miscellaneous inanimate unspecified objects.