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What To Do When “Life Happens”

Lesson 13 from: Digital Declutter: Organizing Your Digital Life

Jonathan Levi & Maya Yizhaky

What To Do When “Life Happens”

Lesson 13 from: Digital Declutter: Organizing Your Digital Life

Jonathan Levi & Maya Yizhaky

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Lesson Info

13. What To Do When “Life Happens”

Next Lesson: Quiz - Chapter 2

Lessons

Class Trailer

Chapter 1:Introductions, Foundations, & Setting Up For Success

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Download The PDF Syllabus

00:28
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Course Structure How To Succeed

05:43
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What is Digital Overwhelm

04:17
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Why Does It Actually Matter

07:06
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The Alternative - Digital Peace of Mind

02:31
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Quiz - Chapter 1

Chapter 2: The Fundamentals To Digital Peace of Mind

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The Importance of Robust Systems

05:41
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The Power of “The Cloud”

03:30
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Leveraging Automation To Reduce Friction

04:55
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Reestablishing A Healthy Relationship With Your Technology

05:47
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Digital Minimalism - The #1 Strategy To Achieve Order

04:57
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What Intuitive Organizational Type Are You

04:28
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What To Do When “Life Happens”

03:27
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Quiz - Chapter 2

Chapter 3: Regaining Control: Taming Your Inbox

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Wrangling All Of Your Email Accounts

04:56
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Inbox vs. Archive - Achieving Inbox Freedom

04:07
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The Machete - Cutting Down Your Overloaded Inbox

03:41
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The Scalpel - Strategically Cutting Down The Rest Of Your Inbox

06:58
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Get A Grip On Your Subscriptions

04:35
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Starting Fresh - Creating Your Own Structure

07:25
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What Happens Next - Beginner’s Inbox Organization

08:40
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Let’s Get Ninja - Advanced Inbox Organization

08:02
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Quiz - Chapter 3

Chapter 4: Everything Else: The Basics of Digital Order

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Enabling Back-Ups

10:02
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Calendar

12:24
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Choosing & Using A “To-Do” List

09:23
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Neat Notes Snippets

11:59
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Syncing and Organizing Documents

10:00
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Downloads Folder

03:49
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Conquering Your Contacts List

11:08
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Securely & Safely Storing Passwords

09:00
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Scan It, Send It

04:55
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Managing Legacy File Storage

04:46
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Quiz - Chapter 4

Chapter 5: Managing Your Media

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Saving Sites

05:16
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Cross-Device Syncing of Photos & Videos

06:45
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Keeping Your Music Organized

07:57
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Books and Reading Materials

05:18
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Quiz - Chapter 5

Chapter 6: Conclusion

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Self-Assessment & Success Moving Forward

05:47
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Congratulations & What We’ve Learned

01:42
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Bonus - How To Take Your Digital Decluttering To The Next Level

00:27

Final Quiz

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Final Quiz

Lesson Info

What To Do When “Life Happens”

at this point in the course, you understand that there is a better way to live your digital life. What's more, you know why it's so important. But listen, we're all human, we all go through busy periods in our lives where we are flying by the seat of our pants and can barely keep up with everything we need to during those periods it can be difficult or even impossible to maintain a sense of digital zen and stay de cluttered. Even if your systems are incredibly robust. In other words, sometimes life happens in those situations. What do we do first and foremost, It's important to never beat yourself up if you become too hard on yourself or pessimistic or come to conclusions. When this happens, you will fall prey to what psychologists lovingly call the what the hell effect. But what the hell effects is the psychological effect at play. When you decide after eating an unhealthy lunch that you might as well eat an unhealthy dinner too. It's the psychological effect that convinces you that h...

eck you skip the gym all week, you might as well skip it this weekend too among behavioral scientists. This is a known cognitive bias. But here's the thing, this line of thinking is not rational and it's not helpful just because things get a little out of control or we fail to maintain a perfect streak at whatever our goal is, doesn't mean we should just give up if we stop and think about it rationally eating a whole box of cookies is way worse than eating just three and the same is true with our digital lives. If your email, computer files or anything else becomes a little disorganized, treat yourself with understanding and compassion rather than jumping to conclusions about how disorganized you are or how you're failing at your goal of staying organized stories like I am disorganized and this is hopeless, I'll never get this under control are unhelpful and they get in the way of our progress Instead understand that this is normal and natural to sometimes lose control and plan ahead. In fact, we recommend setting up a regular ritual for what we like to call routine maintenance. This ritual could be based on specific times, such as setting aside a half hour at the end of every friday or based on specific tasks. For example, I know Maya makes it a point to go through and do a full maintenance cleanup of her whole digital ecosystem once a week for you, you might choose to organize your files or sort through your email inbox while you're watching your favorite tv shows or even while on the exercise bike when and how you do this. Regular maintenance isn't as important as the fact that you just do it just like you probably wouldn't go weeks or months without cleaning your house or apartment or having it cleaned for you. So too, should you make a regular cleanup session a part of your new digitally organized life. We found that for most people a once a week, one or maybe two hour session at the end of their work week for maintenance of all digital tasks, including email works pretty well. If you make an effort to regularly keep things tidy, they will never get completely out of control and you'll never fall prey to the what the hell effect. Plus later on in the course, when we show you some of our favorite tools for automating much of this tidying, it will become even easier.

Class Materials

Bonus Materials with Purchase

Course Syllabus
Worksheet - Exploring Your Intuitive Organizational Type
Worksheet - Surveying Your Digital Landscape
Worksheet - Email Account Triage

Ratings and Reviews

joe culver
 

This class is well organized and flows well. There is one thing I do NOT like is the reference to another class in the Syllabus: "Kill The Chaos of Information Overload with Evernote Webinar" The webinar has only one good tip, use Tabs in Evernote. The webinar hypes more tips if you buy the course by Charles Bird. I bought the course for $197 which was listed as a discount from a much higher price. The course is poorly assembled, out of date, and hardly worth more than a few dollars. It assembled with a bunch of short videos, each video starts after he is talking and ends before he is finished. Evernote Scanner is no longer made and Evernote no longer supports the software.

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