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How to do a Digital Declutter
- Set aside a 30-day period during which you will take a break from optional technologies in your life. Work email is not optional. Twitter probably is.
- During this break, explore and rediscover activities and behaviors you find satisfying and meaningful.
- And after the 30 days are up, reintroduce the optional technologies you want back into your life.
- Determine the value it brings you and how specifically you can use it to maximize that value.
- Bing optional technologies back by first creating rules on how exactly you’ll use them and when.
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As Cal Newport defines it, Digital minimalism is:
“A philosophy of technology use in which you focus your online time on a small number of carefully selected and optimized activities that strongly support things you value, and then happily miss out on everything else.”
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- Spend Time Alone without your digital technology. Try leaving your phone at home while you go for a walk, journaling, or simply spending more time alone.
- Don’t ...
- Choice and intention. You’re still using technology, but only what you want and only in ways that connect to your values.
- Optimizing the tools you use. What you allow into your life needs to work for you. This means separating the good from the bad.
- Accepting...
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This philosophy is guided by the idea that we should be in control over what kinds of media we consume, not have our habits dictated to us by technology.
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It's the practice of planning out every moment of your day in advance and dedicating specific time “blocks” for certain tasks and responsibilities.
When you fill your calendar with the tasks and things you want to do, it’s harder for others to steal your time.
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