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Reestablishing A Healthy Relationship With Your Technology

Lesson 10 from: Digital Declutter: Organizing Your Digital Life

Jonathan Levi & Maya Yizhaky

Reestablishing A Healthy Relationship With Your Technology

Lesson 10 from: Digital Declutter: Organizing Your Digital Life

Jonathan Levi & Maya Yizhaky

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Lesson Info

10. Reestablishing A Healthy Relationship With Your Technology

Lessons

Class Trailer

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

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Download The PDF Syllabus

00:28
2

Course Structure How To Succeed

05:43
3

What is Digital Overwhelm

04:17
4

Why Does It Actually Matter

07:06
5

The Alternative - Digital Peace of Mind

02:31
6

Quiz - Chapter 1

Chapter 2: The Fundamentals To Digital Peace of Mind

7

The Importance of Robust Systems

05:41
8

The Power of “The Cloud”

03:30
9

Leveraging Automation To Reduce Friction

04:55
10

Reestablishing A Healthy Relationship With Your Technology

05:47
11

Digital Minimalism - The #1 Strategy To Achieve Order

04:57
12

What Intuitive Organizational Type Are You

04:28
13

What To Do When “Life Happens”

03:27
14

Quiz - Chapter 2

Chapter 3: Regaining Control: Taming Your Inbox

15

Wrangling All Of Your Email Accounts

04:56
16

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
19

Get A Grip On Your Subscriptions

04:35
20

Starting Fresh - Creating Your Own Structure

07:25
21

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

24

Enabling Back-Ups

10:02
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Calendar

12:24
26

Choosing & Using A “To-Do” List

09:23
27

Neat Notes Snippets

11:59
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Syncing and Organizing Documents

10:00
29

Downloads Folder

03:49
30

Conquering Your Contacts List

11:08
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Securely & Safely Storing Passwords

09:00
32

Scan It, Send It

04:55
33

Managing Legacy File Storage

04:46
34

Quiz - Chapter 4

Chapter 5: Managing Your Media

35

Saving Sites

05:16
36

Cross-Device Syncing of Photos & Videos

06:45
37

Keeping Your Music Organized

07:57
38

Books and Reading Materials

05:18
39

Quiz - Chapter 5

Chapter 6: Conclusion

40

Self-Assessment & Success Moving Forward

05:47
41

Congratulations & What We’ve Learned

01:42
42

Bonus - How To Take Your Digital Decluttering To The Next Level

00:27

Final Quiz

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Final Quiz

Lesson Info

Reestablishing A Healthy Relationship With Your Technology

now that we're clear on the fundamentals to digital peace of mind. Let's move on to actually re establishing a healthy relationship with our technology. Since the moment mobile phones landed in our hands. The demands of digital living have steadily piled up. Sometimes it feels like we're dating our devices there. The first thing we see in the morning and the last thing that we touch before we fall asleep, our devices dictate our schedule, our attention and our time we've discussed that organization is a habit that can be learned and encouraged through robust systems, but it's not just outward forces that are to blame for our digital disasters, just like any other area of our life. We are active players in shaping how and when we interact with our technology ideally, technology is an enabler. It helps us to achieve targets, saves time or improve quality when used properly, technological tools can help us get where we want to go. And yet many of us feel that technology is getting in the ...

way of our bigger goals or even suffocating us. So now we're going to give you an opportunity. It's time to envision what a healthy relationship with technology could look like for you. What do you want your relationship with technology to be like going forward? If you need help identifying what needs to change. Just imagine what your loved ones would say about your current technology use, what might a healthy relationship with technology even look like. Well, you have a morning and or evening routine free from technology use you're not always reachable. You have identified your preferred ways of being contacted and have set up systems to encourage communication through these channels, you prioritize your personal relationships over mindless device time or social media scrolling you easily and regularly go into deep work mode, making progress in your professional and creative pursuits. These are a few common signs of happy digital ists, Jonathan and I both consider ourselves proud members of this camp While we frequently use technology and enjoy its many benefits. Our technology does not use us as you progress through the extended version of this course. Remember that digital decluttering is based on more than just organizing your files or setting up systems. It's also about bringing awareness to your technology use, it's up to you to reset your relationship with technology to be on your terms terms that actually serve your personal and professional goals. One of the quickest ways to move towards a healthier relationship with technology is to reset your usage by eliminating unnecessary apps and notifications. Let's kick off our reset with a few quick actions first, let's do an app, Cleanse, pause this video and take out your phone, take 10 minutes right now and look through all of your apps one by one and delete any app that you haven't used in the last six months and while you're at it, delete any apps that you don't want to use anymore games, old or duplicate apps, can't decide about one of europe's be brave, Go ahead and delete it for now and if in a few days you realize you want to add back. Just re download it. Then next let's do a notifications reset. Go to your phone settings and notifications on your iphone. We recommend looking at the screen time setting, Opening up your screen time report and then scrolling all the way to the bottom two notifications where you will see a complete listing of how many notifications you currently get per day on your android device. You can view this in the digital well being setting for many of you. This will be a big wake up call from there. It's up to you which notifications you ultimately decide you want to disable. But we encourage you to first try disabling all of your banner notifications for one day, then identify which notifications you truly missed or felt you needed and re enable only those. We have found that for most people, text messages are the only banner notifications you may end up feeling you truly need. So remember the fewer interruptions you have the better. You can do the same with notifications also for your web browser and your computer's apps. Next routine design. Think through your current morning and evening routines are you sleeping well and waking up energized and stress free. When do you first see a screen in the morning and when do you put your screens away at night for the next seven days. Try resetting your routine experiment with a 15 minute digital free quiet time when you first wake up and right before you fall asleep For those 15 minutes, do anything you want. That improves your quality of life. As long as it has nothing to do with a screen, you can meditate stretch exercise, make a cup of tea. Do a five minute journal exercise, hug your partner. Really anything you want? Just no screen time. For many of you, this is going to prove much more difficult than you imagine and most likely that is going to be yet another wake up call. But by drawing a line in the sand and beginning to proactively create the type of relationship that you want with your digital devices. You are taking the first step towards claiming back power. Later on in the digital zen portion of this extended version of this course, we are going to go much deeper into how you can change your interaction with technology for now. Take a few minutes to perform the steps we've listed above so that you can proceed through the rest of this course unhindered

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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