When we prune a tree, it allows for the limited resources it has put to good use. Instead of wasting time on areas that are not bound to grow.
The other week, I wrote about the power of the delete button. But we can’t forget there is also an unsubscribe button. Quite literally, we can choose what comes in. Time is constant. And so, how do we choose to fill it? Taking a moment to figure out how to curate the inbound sets up the rest of the days going forward. Regular maintenance would be required, like an oil change. But 15 minutes a quarter will save so much of our attention in the aggregate.
Perhaps the greatest asset we have in this economy is attention. Each newsletter, blog, notification, and viral video chips away at that attention. And if we say yes to clicking this, we are saying no to something else. Digital clutter is 100 percent real. The question is how we manage it. Saving two minutes a day over a lifetime adds up.
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