I would check Facebook multiple times per day. The hard thing is to realize and acknowledge that there’s way too much clutter in our lives.
And I really want to be a serial killer in that sense. Be it a habit, a small task, an app on my iPhone, or just a piece of clothing, I’m hundred percent committed to killing one item per week. It drives me to eliminate one small thing each and every week. Recently, I updated my weekly review checklist with one powerful item: elimination. So, how do you ensure that you eliminate clutter from your life? The weekly review revisited I’ll refer to minimalism in a broader sense, be it analog or digital physical or mental. In this post, I want to report how I ensure that elimination takes place in my life on a regular basis so as to leave place to the more important stuff. We want to please people and say yes to every request. We always want to add more stuff to our already filled plates. It’s a simple antonym for addition, which is how we live our lives day by day.
Still, we live a life full of clutter including but not limited to a cluttered workplace, a cluttered home, a cluttered to-do list, and a cluttered closet.Įlimination is hard to practice to most of us, partly due to its connotation. What does it mean to you? What term comes to mind when you consider minimalism?įrom Marie Kondo’s Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up to Greg McKeown’s Essentialism to Cal Newport’s Digital Minimalism, the liberating power of elimination reappears from time to time. Sensitive data can be password protected with AES encryption.Minimalism―The most powerful word in the era of distraction. Entering 'calc' may open the Windows calculator program or striking the hotkey CTRL-F8 may offer a Google search query of a highlighted text on-the-fly.Ī portable edition runs from a USB thumb drive without installation. Macros can also launch programs or open documents triggered by shortcuts.
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