De-clutter Your Life Now!

Posted on December 29, 2007
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First of all, thanks Terry for keeping up the forth here while I was busy partying away through Christmas. Actually I wish I was partying, but except for the actual Xmas day I was online pretty much all the time. I failed to blog during this time because I was de-cluttering my business including laptop, desktop, mind and other things. But Terry wished you all a happy Christmas from all of us and he talked about blogging them together.

I want to talk about clutter and how it can upset our blogging day. In the last couple of month I noticed a disturbing trend in my mind where I struggled to keep up with all my assignments, both self imposed and paid. There was an ever increasing amount of information that kept bombarding my mind to be read and heard, but the dealing with became a little ridiculous.

It wasn’t for lack of time management, but for information overload. I tried to absorb too much and deal with too many things and on the bottom line this sent me close to mental collapse. (Well, not really but this is what it could do if left un treated).

I realized that I simply couldn’t keep up with the pace I had self inflicted upon me and something had to give to allow for smoother performance. The biggest issue for me was to keep up with reading all the new blog posts (skimming), visiting the more interesting ones and comment. I spent around 3 hours a day in the end to do this as well as promoter other people’s stuff through social media.

This is simply crazy! I cannot keep doing this with a growing writing business and my intentions to grow other income streams if I already run out of time. Therefore this activity had to give big time and these days I limit myself to read and comment on only those blogs that actually give me value for my time spent there.

If I don’t learn something new that I can implement, then I won’t bother reading the blog any longer. Interestingly enough I keep floating back to the same blogs over and over again since they do give me value and therefore I can justify what I do.

My priorities were to organize myself better and since shifting my focus on this more Zen style approach it has made a huge difference.

Sometimes when we feel overloaded and overworked, it really does pay to stop and take a good look at why! This little “break” has given me insight into where I need to cut back and where I need to get more active.

I’m in the process of de-cluttering my business and my life and it feels like a fresh breath of air.

Monika Mundell

Blogging Web 2.0

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