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That second type of clutter is that which resides in your mind. Start a bucket list in a single, good-old-fashioned paper notebook. This isn't a task or project list. It's a list of all your emotional memories as they come to mind, your current emotional state, anxieties as you feel them, and worries about the future. Ruminating is a clear symptom that you're in need of psychic decluttering. Writing it down with pen and paper (in my experience and observations of others) is the best way to counteract these unhealthy stores of emotional baggage.
Finally, there's no doubt that as our lives become ever more digital, there's bound to be more data on our computers, our mobile devices and the Web about us that we have to manage. I remember when everything I owned in digital data could be held on a single "Microfloppy"...which, for you Millenials and younger, those were 3.5" floppy diskettes that held a whopping 1.44MB! Those were the days. I'd carry that "Microfloppy" with me everywhere and I felt like I held my entire world in my pocket. Well, today, I carry a smartphone that holds literally 22,755.5 Microfloppies worth of data and there's countless more data on the Web about me.
That doesn't mean you can't find ways to get rid of massive amounts of dead-weight data and organize it so that it's no longer clutter, but meaningful data that you can protect and use effectively. The first step is admitting to yourself you have digital clutter!
I know this is just a primer on how to start hardcore decluttering but my hope is that it sparks action and you can come up with new, innovative ideas about how you're banishing clutter. I'll be covering clutter type specifically--physical, psychic and digital--in future episodes so stay tuned!
ProdPod: Episode 78 - Hoarding, Part II - How is compulsive hoarding defined and classified? with Professional Organizer Sally Reinholdt
ProdPod: Episode 77 -- Hoarding, Part I: Who Hoards? with Professional Organizer Sally Reinholdt
ProdPod: Episode 76 -- Be Thankful, and Be Productive
ProdPod: Episode 75 — How to Run your Personal Advisory Board, Part Two
ProdPod: Episode 74 -- How to Run your Personal Advisory Board, Part One
ProdPod: Episode 73 -- Advantages of and Member Criteria for a Personal Advisory Board
ProdPod: Episode 72 -- Establishing a Personal Advisory Board
ProdPod: Episode 71--Two-Minute Book Summary: Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength
ProdPod: Episode 70--When Is Too Little Stress Bad and More Stress Good for Your Productivity
ProdPod: Episode 69--Day Reset
ProdPod: Episode 68--Digital Clutter: Out of Sight Is Not Out of Mind
ProdPod: Episode 67 -- Diamond Rule - Do Unto Others as They Would Like Done Unto Themselves
ProdPod: Episode 66 -- "Pull Method" to More Productive Relationships, Analyzing and Synthesizing Relationship Data
ProdPod: Episode 65 -- "Pull Method" to More Productive Relationships, Collecting Data
ProdPod: Episode 64 -- Plant-Based Productivity
ProdPod: Episode 63 -- Life-Work Balance
ProdPod: Episode 62 -- Best-Practices for Blog Reading
ProdPod: Episode 61 — Personal Life Action Negotiation (PLAN), Part Two
ProdPod: Episode 60 -- Personal Life Action Negotiation (PLAN), Part One
ProdPod: Episode 59 -- Habit
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