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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 38 -- Outsource Your Personal Tasks, Part I
ProdPod: Episode 37 -- Controlling Email: Create a Culture of Communication Protocol
ProdPod: Episode 36: Writing Productivity Quick Tip with Paula Whitacre - Full Circle Communications
ProdPod: Episode 35 -- Emotional Intelligence and a Productive Life
ProdPod: Episode 34 -- FastCustomer, a Productivity Tool for Making Customer Service Better
ProdPod: Episode 33 - Turn Conflict Into Winning Together For Increased Productivity
ProdPod: Episode 32 -- Meditation's Power on Productivity
ProdPod: Episode 31 -- Your Digital Productivity System Needs a Paper-Based Redundancy
ProdPod: Episode 30 -- Two-Minute Book Summary: 18 Minutes by Peter Bregman
ProdPod: Episode 29 -- Personal Stress Audit
ProdPod: Episode 28 -- Creating Flow: Learning to Fully Use Our Current Productivity Tools
ProdPod: Episode 27 -- Parkinson's Law
ProdPod: Episode 26 -- Technology and Simplicity
ProdPod: Episode 25 -- Is your system too complex?
ProdPod: Episode 24 -- Thanksgiving and Interdependence
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ProdPod: Episode 22 -- Defining procrastination
ProdPod: Episode 21 -- How to Worry Less
ProdPod: Episode 20 -- Self-control & Savings: Productivity for the Long Haul
ProdPod: Episode 19 -- SMART Goals for Project Planning
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