Make Your Life Easier By Unsubscribing

Are you feeling overwhelmed?

Are your backlogs of things to go through just getting larger?

It’s time to Marie Kondo that shit. We need to declutter our digital lives as much as our real ones. The extreme end is to get rid of everything and start from scratch. But that may be too much and inadvertently get rid of important things too.

What we need to do is take a look at everything coming into us from now on.

For every new email, newsletter, podcast episode or anything else. We need to make two considerations.

The first is, is it needed? This actually is the more difficult of the two to criteria as our view of necessity has probably become distorted. Will it very negatively impact our life to not have this item or receive from this sender? This includes being critical for anything we’re doing in our lives at that moment such as progressing quests. If the answer is no then we can unsubscribe or check it with the second criteria.

The second criteria is really aligned with the Marie Kondo sparking joy idea. Do you love this, do you immediately want to consume this item (read or listen to it) or do you want to add it to your backlog for later? If your instinct is the latter then get rid of it.

Unsubscribing is more than getting rid of items but also reduces future items. If it’s something that has no formal unsubscribe process or is unsolicited then the alternative is to look at blocking (in email this is relatively easy to do).

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