fading

It costs little to keep email, but that doesn’t mean you should keep millions of messages for years and years.

syncofout

If you are looking for a way to spend money that you haven’t earned yet, there is a disconnect.

immediate affirmation

I can change everything at once.

decay

The passage of time does not make ideas easier to implement, more relevant, or more exciting.

owner of

You can’t properly own anything until you spend time with it and put attention on it.

spiraling

All the time you spend saying what you need to do is time you are not spending doing any of those things.

depreciating

Consumer eleectronics can decline in value quickly, so if you are planning to sell something you no longer use, don’t put it off for a few months.

turning the corner

The past does not point you toward the future.

old technology

Many technology items lose all their commercial value within ten years of the initial product release. Then it isn’t possible to sell the item at any price except by accident.

slow and easy

If you have the luxury of time, make clutter clearing a gradual process.

another era

Some of those things will be obsolete by the time you get back to them.

peak clutter

Mentally replay the time of day that has the most pressure for you to move quickly or work productively. Then look around for the obstacles that could get in the way.

. . .

At some point you reach the end of the instructions. Then you proceed on your own.

undecided

You have multiple possessions that you intend to use in the future, but there is only one future that matters.

in alignment

Sometimes early or late is right on time.

untangled

Distractions take up your time, so it is a sensible investment to spend a comparable amount of time removing distractions.

pay now

If you can schedule bill payments the day they come in, the time you save is about 1 hour per week.

optimized

If it takes a lot more time to do something efficiently, that’s not efficient.

drumbeat

You don’t have to watch a clock for long to see that time doesn’t care what you are feeling.

the inventor

Spend more time paying attention to the problems that you want to solve than to the problems that you just want to complain about.