I want to do a lot of things

I am not getting any (or many) of them done

I am getting distracted by far too much!

It is a simple fact of my life that I need to simplify in order to achieve my goals. I have taken a step back and begun to look at all the stuff around me that is causing distraction. I have divided things into digital and physical for ease and the first area to come under the spotlight is digital.

There is so much stuff that is cluttering up my digital productivity. This includes hardware, software and websites. Being an early adopter in most areas and in particular software and websites, I quickly clutter up the gigabytes, locally and in the cloud. Time to change.

So a plan of action:

• Remove all plugins from Firefox
• Add any plugins I may actually use
• Decide what software I actually use, discard the rest
  • I have far too much that I think I may use, or that is used as one part of a process and could be skipped
• Decide what websites are worth using and set up any auto posting that is needed
  • Web 2.0 is fun, but I only regularly use a few
  • Use ping to cross post
  • Delete accounts from any sites I don’t use
• Organise my feed reader
  • Choose a time to access this and only access at that time – good posts will wait there
• Organise and strip down my bookmarks
  • Far too many here that I never use, and they just clutter and drain mental energy

There will probably be a lot more I need to do. The hardware issue is tied into what software and websites I use so I need to sort those out first, and looking at the list above that may take some time. But item one is already done, and guess what, firefox is once again a quick and pleasant browser.