Incremental January: Week 3
/Every month I’m picking one skill to practice everyday for a month and updating my progress every Monday. I call it Project Incremental. Read up on how it all got started.
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De-cluttering continues. Clothes, books, shoes, and yarn have been sorted and rearranged. There are bags of stuff sitting by the door just waiting to be donated or traded-in. I’ve even cleaned out my car. Still, there’s a lot to do and the work continues.
This week, I’m still going to be focusing on the space around me but I’m also going to work on cleaning up the digital space. This week isn’t just about freeing up space on my hard drive. This week is about getting back my time, cutting out distractions, and saving my attention for the things that really need it. The 10+ emails in my inbox every morning trying to sell me stuff are not worth my time. So, this week I am going to:
- Edit account settings to reduce the amount of email various sites send me every day.
- Unsubscribe from newsletters that I’m just not excited about anymore.
- Clean up my RSS feeds. Blogs and comics that don’t hold my attention? Gone. Sites that post more 3-5 times a day? Bye-bye. Etsy shops I’m not fond of anymore? (Yes, Etsy shops have RSS feeds). Deleted. My wallet is already sighing with relief.
- Stop emails from social networks saying that someone has commented/pinned/tagged whatever I’ve posted. It‘s just distracting and hides the important stuff in my inbox. I’m already going to the site whether I get an email or not.
- Delete bookmarks to sites that are no longer relevant or dead.
- Delete blurry and unusable photos. Must make room for the good ones.
- Uninstall programs that I will never use and forgot about because I found something better.
Now if I could just stop checking my email or Ravelry or Reddit every time I get bored, I’d have a lot more time on my hands.
