![]() ![]() We’ve all been there-suddenly realizing we’ve just spent 45 minutes paging back and forth on Facebook and accomplishing nothing. Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and a wide range of other social media sites can be helpful and productive in certain ways, but you must be very careful to not allow them to absorb minutes and hours that you’ll never get back. Here are six strategies to reduce clutter and minimize stress and complexity while remaining productively on the grid: That being not terribly realistic, most of us are going to have to learn how to lead simplified lives while coping with information overload. Networking with moose and caribou is done without the luxury of a mobile device. Of course, to truly simplify your life and access the serenity and peace that many of us seek, we’d need to go off the grid completely, throw the damned electronic devices in the lake, and go live in a cabin in Alaska. Organizing, categorizing and systematizing your phone is a good place to start. (Control really is the key to the point I’m trying to make here.)Īre You Using Your Technology, or Is It Using You?īeing able to easily navigate through all of the screens and apps on your phone and computers without having the needle peg to overwhelming levels is essential for a simplified existence. Let’s leave the big picture for the scientists to figure out, while we focus in on what we can control. That’s not hyperbole- those are quantifiable numbers.īut life inside the Matrix is not what I want to talk to you about today. Twenty years from now (I’m writing this at the beginning of 2016) technological advancements will be hundreds of thousands if not over a million times more advanced. The scary thing is that in a few years, we’ll look back and marvel at the slow pace of expansion of our technology. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to live a simplified, decluttered and on purpose life while grappling with the firehose-like stream of information (and what passes for entertainment) that is shot at us at all hours of the day and night from our televisions, laptops, and smartphones.Ĭurrently, computers double their capabilities every twelve to eighteen months, and so do the information technologies that we use on them.
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