Last summer (or was it the summer before - mom fail) #handsfreemama was all the rage. Drop your phone and interact with your kids more. I tried, mostly quite unsuccessfully. With a home office and flexible work hours I'm "on call" for six different clients day and night. It's been that way forever, and it's a hard habit to break.
My cell phone is a constant "ping" of notifications. Three email accounts sync to my phone - "ping" for each new email. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, My Fitness Pal and Pinterest - "ping" for each like, direct message, mention, comment, friend request. Words with Friends - at least 10 games going at one time - "ping" each time it's my move, or someone chats with me. Not to mention texts - "ping" "ping" "ping".
Notifications rule my free time. They clutter my mind and I have to clear them immediately.
Oh, and it isn't just my phone. When I open my internet, my browser opens 4 social media sites and beckons me to "come see what others are doing while you are sitting at your desk working." Clutter.
My NOOK isn't even protected. My electronic book is now a Google Play tablet, so all the apps are there too. Reading time is interrupted by constant "pings".
I realized a change needed to occur. All those "pings" were cluttering my mind. I can't live in clutter. I can't focus. Case in point, my computer desktop:
I doubt many have a desktop as clutter-free as mine. When I go to bed at night my physical desktop must be just as clean. Clutter - I can't function with it. I realized part of my "audacious 2014" is removing the clutter in my life so I can FOCUS on that which is important.
I might be late to the party, but I figured it out exactly one day before this article came across my desk. I'm looking forward to reducing even more clutter - physical or "pings" from my life.
http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2013/11/27/clutter-affects-productivity-can/#!t21ov
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