I feel this article, Matt! About a year ago I accidentally deleted the "To Do List" in the Notes app on my phone. I panicked! That list was like an extension of my brain! I was so angry with myself! I searched every corner of the internet for 3 days straight to see if there was a way to retrieve this sacred list. Turns out, you can't retrieve things that were never saved in "the cloud" to begin with! [Enter explicit emoji here] As angry as I was with myself, I finally reached a point where I was like, ya know what- whatever! I accepted the fact that the list was gone and... and it truly felt amazing! Loosing that list was almost like a technological cleanse for me! 🙌 I've since started a new list (which I made sure to save in the cloud!) and granted, here we are almost a year later and my new To Do List looks a lot like the one from before except that this time around, I find myself being ok with deleting things off my list if after a while I don't find the task to be realistic and/or important! So, at least there's THAT! 😁
Love your articles, Matt. Keep 'em coming, my friend! ~ di
Matt, again we're in sync. I believe you properly identified the Working Theory that is a distraction and disruption to being productive. There are so many choices and your emailbox and social media feeds are embarrassingly easy for me and everyone else to populate; my CRM is even programmed to ask for "replicate?" and "send again?"
Your productivity bankruptcy reminds me of the old school technique of scanning a document or magazine, and if not urgent, put it in the "later" desk drawer, now updated to the "later" File Manager folder. Then following your once-a-month reflection time, throw those items away. Wa-la!
I feel this article, Matt! About a year ago I accidentally deleted the "To Do List" in the Notes app on my phone. I panicked! That list was like an extension of my brain! I was so angry with myself! I searched every corner of the internet for 3 days straight to see if there was a way to retrieve this sacred list. Turns out, you can't retrieve things that were never saved in "the cloud" to begin with! [Enter explicit emoji here] As angry as I was with myself, I finally reached a point where I was like, ya know what- whatever! I accepted the fact that the list was gone and... and it truly felt amazing! Loosing that list was almost like a technological cleanse for me! 🙌 I've since started a new list (which I made sure to save in the cloud!) and granted, here we are almost a year later and my new To Do List looks a lot like the one from before except that this time around, I find myself being ok with deleting things off my list if after a while I don't find the task to be realistic and/or important! So, at least there's THAT! 😁
Love your articles, Matt. Keep 'em coming, my friend! ~ di
What a happy accident!
Matt, again we're in sync. I believe you properly identified the Working Theory that is a distraction and disruption to being productive. There are so many choices and your emailbox and social media feeds are embarrassingly easy for me and everyone else to populate; my CRM is even programmed to ask for "replicate?" and "send again?"
Your productivity bankruptcy reminds me of the old school technique of scanning a document or magazine, and if not urgent, put it in the "later" desk drawer, now updated to the "later" File Manager folder. Then following your once-a-month reflection time, throw those items away. Wa-la!
Please keep the advice coming; we need to continue to elevate humanity (a line I regularly borrow from our Conscious Capitalism community (https://www.consciouscapitalism.org/chapter/atlanta) Cheers. Hal