Spring Cleaning for the Soul: Tackling Your Digital World
Even though our digital world is often where we spend a lot of our time, other things might first come to mind for your Spring cleaning activity, such as unplugging your technology regularly. However, a digital spring clean includes a lot more. Here are a few ideas for you to consider:
Tame your email. Achieving “inbox zero” may not be possible. If you are like me, I clean out my inbox at the end of the day only to find an e-mountain of mail in the morning. Even if you already plan to stay on top of your emails, there are plenty of easy ways to continue to lighten up your digital clutter. Here are just a few:
Set a fifteen-minute timer and unsubscribe from all those pesky sales and spam emails clogging up your inbox.
Consider archiving old emails or setting up electronic folders to help clear your inbox. Filing the contents of emails gives you a better chance of finding them when you need them.
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Set up rules in your email client to automatically delete emails in the trash to free up space on your hard drive. Or you can store them on a separate hard drive.
Set aside quiet time each week to read non-urgent emails. You can put them in one folder to access them at your convenience. File/segregate emails.
Put weddings, anniversaries, and birthdays on your calendar. You can even set up reminders to never miss an important day for those close to you. You will know they are coming, allowing you to make them unique.
Make your doctor appointments. Start by listing the types of appointments you need and when. You can even set reminders before your annual check-ups to ensure you won’t be disappointed that the doctor can’t see you when it’s time for your yearly check-up.
Make workout appointments with yourself. Nothing makes you happier than good health. Having it on your schedule makes you more likely to not book something else.
Organize Your Phone
We look at our phones hundreds of times a day. Taking a few minutes to organize and streamline access can be something that can help us be more productive but may also reduce our stress. Look at these ideas to see if this might help:
Delete unused apps. We all have apps we rarely use. It just makes it hard to find the ones that we use frequently.
Group apps by category. Organizing your apps into productivity, travel, finance, shopping, and social media categories will save you time and frustration.
Update your apps. This may take some time, so find a time when you do not have to use your phone. You can find a regular time each week to do this, so reduce the time needed to keep everything up to date.
Update your contacts. If you are like me, you have a list of address and phone number changes on a pad for when I have time. Like you, I only have time if I schedule it.
Move or delete pictures. Most of us have every picture we have ever taken on our phones. Schedule time to sort them and consider putting the ones you don’t want to delete on a separate hard drive or in Evernote or Dropbox.
Wipe down all your tech appliances—computers, phones, mice, trackpads, printers, etc. More bacteria live on these devices than on a toilet handle! Yuck.
Free up digital space. Find your storage settings and check what is taking up the most space. Instead of buying more cloud storage, you can delete or move things that are taking up space.
Take Back Your Time
Once you have finished a clean-up of your digital world, take a few moments to reflect on what change you would like to make in how, when, where, and the amount of time you spend engaged digitally.
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