Episode Summary: In the sixth episode of our new season of Love Life, Live Well, our host Emma Cartmell is joined by Lisa McHargue, a digital organiser who helps online business owners take control of their digital chaos and create systems to keep the backend of their businesses organised.
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Episode highlights:
- How Lisa initially became interested in the world of digital decluttering
- Why decluttering and minimalism can sometimes be viewed negatively
- Lisa’s belief that decluttering should be removing things from our lives that don’t add value
- What digital decluttering is and the benefits of it
- How living or working in a cluttered environment can have a negative impact on our health
- How the stress caused by clutter may not be realised until it has been removed
- Lisa’s advice on how to break down your digital decluttering into manageable chunks
- The best way to get started with decluttering
- How little changes can build up and make a huge difference
Key Takeaways:
- But for me, decluttering is really the act of removing anything from our lives that don't add value to it - Lisa
- I work with people on digital decluttering and getting rid of those intangible things. Things that aren't necessarily taking up physical space, but are definitely taking up energetic space, emotional space. They're weighing us down mentally and taking a lot of our cognitive load. - Lisa
- So clutter is a sneaky stressor that has all of these physical and mental ramifications. - Lisa
- None of this really takes hours or even minutes, but are just all these little stumbling blocks that in our busy lives, with our lack of patience is enough for us to say, forget it. - Lisa
- Put all your emails in the order of who they're from. Then all the ones from, for example, your supermarket will be together and you can just highlight them all and just delete them all in one go. - Lisa
- But be brave people and be strong and delete those old, those old emails. - Lisa
- Try something and you can always change. That's the beauty of the digital world. - Lisa
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