10-Minute Digital Declutter Quotes

“#13. Make a “real people first” rule Consider making a personal commitment to avoid social media when you are in the presence of friends and family. If your spouse or kids are around, no checking Facebook. If you’re out to dinner with friends, no sneaking a peek at the Instagram that just popped in. Be fully present with the real people in your life rather than distracted by your virtual friends.”
― S.J. Scott, 10-Minute Digital Declutter: The Simple Habit to Eliminate Technology Overload

“Studies have shown that the average social media user consumes 285 pieces of content a day, which equates to about 54,000 words (the length of an average novel).”
― S.J. Scott, 10-Minute Digital Declutter: The Simple Habit to Eliminate Technology Overload

“Studies have shown that the average social media user consumes 285 pieces of content a day, which equates to about 54,000 words (the length of an average novel). We encounter one thousand clickable links and are bombarded by 174 newspapers’ worth of data a day just through social media alone.”
― S.J. Scott, 10-Minute Digital Declutter: The Simple Habit to Eliminate Technology Overload

“The constant dilemma of the information age is that our ability to gather a sea of data greatly exceeds the tools and techniques available to sort, extract, and apply the information we’ve collected.” - Jeff Davidson, work-life balance expert, author, columnist”
― S.J. Scott, 10-Minute Digital Declutter: The Simple Habit to Eliminate Technology Overload

“When you find yourself checking social media while sitting at a dinner table with family or friends, you know something has to change.”
― S.J. Scott, 10-Minute Digital Declutter: The Simple Habit to Eliminate Technology Overload

“Reaching long-term goals requires focus and discipline—things that are hard to maintain when you’re distracted by social media and surfing the Net. As”
― S.J. Scott, 10-Minute Digital Declutter: The Simple Habit to Eliminate Technology Overload

“With the growth of the Internet, 24-hour television, and mobile phones, we now receive five times as much information every day as we did in 1986. However,”
― S.J. Scott, 10-Minute Digital Declutter: The Simple Habit to Eliminate Technology Overload

“• What do you really value? • How do you want to spend your time and energy? • What are your life priorities and goals? Don’t”
― S.J. Scott, 10-Minute Digital Declutter: The Simple Habit to Eliminate Technology Overload

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― S.J. Scott, 10-Minute Digital Declutter: The Simple Habit to Eliminate Technology Overload

“Think of it this way: If you add up the time spent on each digital device, every day, then you probably have a closer relationship with the virtual world than you have with your spouse, children, or friends.”
― S.J. Scott, 10-Minute Digital Declutter: The Simple Habit to Eliminate Technology Overload

“I think if we’re all honest about it, we all suffer from attention deficit disorder, and it’s in part attributable to the kind of exposure we have to digital devices. The kind of feedback that we get from them is immediate feedback and it’s highly reinforcing, so it becomes like a drug. And in fact, it co-opts the same brain systems that are indicated in addiction.” The”
― S.J. Scott, 10-Minute Digital Declutter: The Simple Habit to Eliminate Technology Overload

“Live in the present, not in the future. Do things right now that make you happy, and don’t keep objects as placeholders for some perfect future that will never come.” Wishful”
― S.J. Scott, 10-Minute Digital Declutter: The Simple Habit to Eliminate Technology Overload

“These days, we prefer the quick fix of instant information and low-quality entertainment over real-world interactions and experiences.”
― S.J. Scott, 10-Minute Digital Declutter: The Simple Habit to Eliminate Technology Overload

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― S.J. Scott, 10-Minute Digital Declutter: The Simple Habit to Eliminate Technology Overload

“Some people have suggested that the “theory of variable rewards” explains our obsession with the digital world. This theory, created by American psychologist and behaviorist B.F. Skinner in the 1950s, resulted from his study of lab mice that responded more aggressively to random rewards than predictable ones. When mice pressed a lever, they sometimes got a small treat, other times a large treat, and other times nothing at all. Unlike mice that received the same treat with each lever press, the mice that received variable rewards pressed the lever more often and compulsively.”
― S.J. Scott, 10-Minute Digital Declutter: The Simple Habit to Eliminate Technology Overload

“The solution to the collaboration issue is to move all team conversations out of the inbox and into a tool that’s designed for this type of conversation.”
― S.J. Scott, 10-Minute Digital Declutter: The Simple Habit to Eliminate Technology Overload

“recent study conducted at Stanford that evaluated the performance levels of multi-taskers. The researchers found that people who focus on one task consistently outperform those who multi-task.”
― S.J. Scott, 10-Minute Digital Declutter: The Simple Habit to Eliminate Technology Overload

“In the 2013 edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, psychiatrists have decided to list Internet Use Disorder (IUD) as a condition “recommended for further study.” That means they haven’t decided yet whether IUD is a legitimate diagnosis requiring treatment, but might do so in the future.”
― S.J. Scott, 10-Minute Digital Declutter: The Simple Habit to Eliminate Technology Overload

“A canned response is a prewritten email that’s stored in your email client. Whenever you get a question that’s similar to this message, you simply click a button and the email will be automatically populated with the response. All you have to do is customize the response to the person and change a line or two, then you can send an email that fully answers the recipient’s question.”
― S.J. Scott, 10-Minute Digital Declutter: The Simple Habit to Eliminate Technology Overload

“go to Google and enter “filter emails in” + the email client you use. So if you use Office 365, then you’d search for “filter emails in Office 365.” Simply go through the walkthrough to learn how to filter the messages that land in your inbox.”
― S.J. Scott, 10-Minute Digital Declutter: The Simple Habit to Eliminate Technology Overload

“We recommend creating four types of folders: • Archives (any email that contains information that might be needed) • Automated (any email newsletter that relates to a strategy you’d like to pursue in the future) • Follow-Up (any email relating to a specific action that needs to be completed) • Send (if you use an assistant to process email, then have this person filter messages that require your final approval into this folder)”
― S.J. Scott, 10-Minute Digital Declutter: The Simple Habit to Eliminate Technology Overload

“That’s why we recommend you remove all emails from your inbox on a daily basis. The only items to keep here are unread messages.”
― S.J. Scott, 10-Minute Digital Declutter: The Simple Habit to Eliminate Technology Overload

“Delete it. The message isn’t important or it requires no response. The simplest action is to get rid of it. If you think it might be important, then you will put the message into an archive folder. Defer it. If a message requires a task that takes 5 or more minutes to complete, then defer it and schedule a date and time when you will do it. One of the main reasons people get bogged down is that they try to take action on emails that require you to complete a lengthy task. For emails like this, it makes sense to estimate the time required, write down the specific action into your calendar, respond back to the recipient with a date when they should expect it and then filter the email into your “Follow-Up” folder. You can use the items on your calendar to schedule the rest of your week. Another option for deferring an item is to use the Boomerang extension, which creates reminders for specific tasks. Delegate it. You may not be the best person to handle the task. If you have a team or subordinates, then delegate the task to the appropriate person. After that, create a reminder in your calendar to follow up and make sure it has been handled. Do it. If it takes less than 5 minutes to respond to an email or complete the required task, then take care of it immediately.”
― S.J. Scott, 10-Minute Digital Declutter: The Simple Habit to Eliminate Technology Overload

“Whenever you open an email, you have one of four decisions: Delete it, Defer it, Delegate it or Do it.”
― S.J. Scott, 10-Minute Digital Declutter: The Simple Habit to Eliminate Technology Overload

“Now, it’s extremely inefficient to open up every message and unsubscribe using the link at the bottom of every email. A simple solution is a service like Unroll.me, which allows you to make a decision about every list subscription. Within a few minutes you can remove your email address from every list—all at once.”
― S.J. Scott, 10-Minute Digital Declutter: The Simple Habit to Eliminate Technology Overload

“• Sort by sender and group similar messages together. • Unsubscribe from all junk email services. • Delete (or archive) the information-only messages. • Filter any messages that require a 5-minute or longer response or completion of a task. • Work through the backlog of older messages as you keep your inbox clear of new messages. • Resolve to keep your inbox clean on a day-to-day basis in the future.”
― S.J. Scott, 10-Minute Digital Declutter: The Simple Habit to Eliminate Technology Overload

“As an example, here are a few of the more popular social media IFTTT tasks that may help you organize your social media: • Send all your Tweets to a Google spreadsheet. • Update your Twitter profile picture when you update your Facebook profile picture. • Automatically Tweet your Facebook status updates. • Post all pictures posted to Instagram on Twitter. • Archive photos you are tagged in on Facebook to Dropbox. • Archive all links you share on Facebook to a single file in Evernote. • Archive all photos you “like” on Instagram to Dropbox. • Have your iPhone pictures emailed to you as you take them.”
― S.J. Scott, 10-Minute Digital Declutter: The Simple Habit to Eliminate Technology Overload

“You can make your social media hours much more efficient and productive by using a tool like VerticalResponse to pre-schedule and post directly from your account. Or try a tool that manages multiple social channels like or HootSuite, TweetDeck, or SproutSocial.”
― S.J. Scott, 10-Minute Digital Declutter: The Simple Habit to Eliminate Technology Overload

“When a “friend” is changed to an “acquaintance,” their posts are pushed lower in the Facebook algorithm and have a far lower chance of showing up in your feed.”
― S.J. Scott, 10-Minute Digital Declutter: The Simple Habit to Eliminate Technology Overload

“Before you follow someone or accept a friend request blindly, make sure you really want to invest any time and energy into this person.”
― S.J. Scott, 10-Minute Digital Declutter: The Simple Habit to Eliminate Technology Overload