What To Do When “Life Happens”
Lesson 13 from: Digital Declutter: Organizing Your Digital LifeJonathan Levi & Maya Yizhaky
What To Do When “Life Happens”
Lesson 13 from: Digital Declutter: Organizing Your Digital LifeJonathan Levi & Maya Yizhaky
Lessons
Chapter 1:Introductions, Foundations, & Setting Up For Success
1Download The PDF Syllabus
00:28 2Course Structure How To Succeed
05:43 3What is Digital Overwhelm
04:17 4Why Does It Actually Matter
07:06 5The Alternative - Digital Peace of Mind
02:31 6Quiz - Chapter 1
Chapter 2: The Fundamentals To Digital Peace of Mind
The Importance of Robust Systems
05:41 8The Power of “The Cloud”
03:30 9Leveraging Automation To Reduce Friction
04:55 10Reestablishing A Healthy Relationship With Your Technology
05:47 11Digital Minimalism - The #1 Strategy To Achieve Order
04:57 12What Intuitive Organizational Type Are You
04:28 13What To Do When “Life Happens”
03:27 14Quiz - Chapter 2
Chapter 3: Regaining Control: Taming Your Inbox
15Wrangling All Of Your Email Accounts
04:56 16Inbox vs. Archive - Achieving Inbox Freedom
04:07 17The Machete - Cutting Down Your Overloaded Inbox
03:41 18The Scalpel - Strategically Cutting Down The Rest Of Your Inbox
06:58 19Get A Grip On Your Subscriptions
04:35 20Starting Fresh - Creating Your Own Structure
07:25 21What Happens Next - Beginner’s Inbox Organization
08:40 22Let’s Get Ninja - Advanced Inbox Organization
08:02 23Quiz - Chapter 3
Chapter 4: Everything Else: The Basics of Digital Order
24Enabling Back-Ups
10:02 25Calendar
12:24 26Choosing & Using A “To-Do” List
09:23 27Neat Notes Snippets
11:59 28Syncing and Organizing Documents
10:00 29Downloads Folder
03:49 30Conquering Your Contacts List
11:08 31Securely & Safely Storing Passwords
09:00 32Scan It, Send It
04:55 33Managing Legacy File Storage
04:46 34Quiz - Chapter 4
Chapter 5: Managing Your Media
35Saving Sites
05:16 36Cross-Device Syncing of Photos & Videos
06:45 37Keeping Your Music Organized
07:57 38Books and Reading Materials
05:18 39Quiz - Chapter 5
Chapter 6: Conclusion
40Self-Assessment & Success Moving Forward
05:47 41Congratulations & What We’ve Learned
01:42 42Bonus - How To Take Your Digital Decluttering To The Next Level
00:27Final Quiz
43Final 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.
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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.