Maybe I need to recognise the difference between clutter and valuable information. The pages I recycled were daily lists including all the tasks I’d done, maybe it would be more encouraging to write a list of all the big tasks I complete each week to keep.

dhanna, thank you for your comment and encouragement. There are things from my past that I used to regret, but in recent years I’ve learnt to accept that without them I would not be ‘me’.

I wonder if I do learn from things I’ve done in the past as I don’t review what I write, could I do it subconsciously?

I too, I don’t see anything wrong taking down notes for future references and looking at them. I think, every experiences at the past made you the way you are right now so sometimes it’s better to sometimes look at it but not stick to it.

It’s good to reminisce the challenging past when you’re in the period of success. Never forget where you came from, it made who you are right now.