The First Step is Awareness
How many times have you fallen down an Internet rabbit hole? Or turned on your phone just to kill time while waiting? We all get caught up sometimes, and the first part of minimizing your digital use is figuring out how you actually use your time.
Decreasing the Noise of Daily Life
Digital minimalism looks different for each of us. Do you really need to be pinged when an email comes in or are you checking email on your own schedule? How about this week’s cookie notification from Crumbl? Or an alert when the litter box is full?
Bing! You’ve got mail!
When you’ve got notifications on your phone or computer, every time you get a new email there’s a little ‘bing’ that goes off and demands your attention. No time for getting anything else done when you’ve got email tugging at your attention. So what should you do?