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How To Clear Your

Digital Clutter And Get

More Done

I spend most of my day on a computer. When I’m not working I spend
my spare time programming or blogging. When I take a break I spend it
looking at my phone.

One of the problems with all this time spent looking at screens is the
amount of digital clutter these habits have created in my life.

I don’t just mean files cluttering up my desktop or a Facebook account
full of friends I barely know. I mean the intangible clutter: the accounts
I have on every social network; the abandoned to-do lists left behind in
every to-do app I’ve ever tried; the people I’m always comparing myself
to or trying to beat.

Spending so much time online every day leads to a cluttered life. One
where you don’t stop and think before grabbing your phone during any
moment of downtime. One where you start feeling obliged to post on
social networks twice a day because your followers expect you to and
you forgot to ask yourself if it even matters what people expect.

It’s so easy for these habits to creep up on us that we never get a
chance to ask ourselves if this is how we want to spend our time.
Before we notice anything changing it just feels normal to fill up our
time—our lives—with screens.

But once we realize how cluttered our lives have become with screens,
social media, and expectations, we can look for ways to simplify that mess.

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