Comments on: Lighten Up By Stripping Away http://www.abundancehighway.com/lighten-up-by-stripping-away/ Journey to Freedom Using The Law of Attraction Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:38:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: traygamb http://www.abundancehighway.com/lighten-up-by-stripping-away/comment-page-1/#comment-1853 traygamb Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:41:20 +0000 http://www.abundancehighway.com/lighten-up-by-stripping-away/#comment-1853 Hi all, This is a very important topic indeed. Next to lack of focus, distractions had been the biggest challenge to my forward movement. As many of your readers did, I unsubscribed from many, many lists and (sensitive me) only remained on the "main" lists for a few sites. Needless to say, I am now clearing out tons of pitches, download offers, affiliate sign up requests and even more mail from those same individuals. Honestly, I was amazed and appalled that I was being inundated with all this mail from the main site, limited status mailings too. Also, I was angry to find that many of the lists I was on used false unsubscribe addresses or links. I've got a massive amount of work ahead of me since I have<strike> or rather, had quite a few email addresses and all of them are now exploding. There's a lesson in there... how much do I really need to know this and how much do I really care? Clutter-control, here I come! Tray</strike> Hi all,
This is a very important topic indeed. Next to lack of focus, distractions had been the biggest challenge to my forward movement. As many of your readers did, I unsubscribed from many, many lists and (sensitive me) only remained on the “main” lists for a few sites.

Needless to say, I am now clearing out tons of pitches, download offers, affiliate sign up requests and even more mail from those same individuals.

Honestly, I was amazed and appalled that I was being inundated with all this mail from the main site, limited status mailings too. Also, I was angry to find that many of the lists I was on used false unsubscribe addresses or links.

I’ve got a massive amount of work ahead of me since I have or rather, had quite a few email addresses and all of them are now exploding. There’s a lesson in there… how much do I really need to know this and how much do I really care? Clutter-control, here I come!

Tray

]]> By: The Anti Hype http://www.abundancehighway.com/lighten-up-by-stripping-away/comment-page-1/#comment-1762 The Anti Hype Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:12:20 +0000 http://www.abundancehighway.com/lighten-up-by-stripping-away/#comment-1762 This is such an important post! Until a decision is made to de-clutter / simplify, call it what you will, it is just so easy to convince yourself that you are efficient because you get through volumes of work. The problem is we need to be effective and not efficient. I went through this pain barrier about 6 months ago after reading The 4 Hour Workweek. I offloaded a raft of time consuming but low profit clients and for my internet life unsubscribed from dozens of lists. I use Bloglines and found I had 3000 unread feeds - time to ditch them. I kept them because there could be some good info in them. But I'd never get round to reading them! They're now gone and I've reduced the feeds to just a few important ones that will help me rather than be "nice" to read. I've also invested in a software program that once learnt is fantastic at storing different types of files/emails/links etc in one place; ie by project etc. and is easily searchable. Took a while to set up but time saved now is immense. Good luck Suzie - the de-clutter is worth it. Mark This is such an important post! Until a decision is made to de-clutter / simplify, call it what you will, it is just so easy to convince yourself that you are efficient because you get through volumes of work. The problem is we need to be effective and not efficient.

I went through this pain barrier about 6 months ago after reading The 4 Hour Workweek. I offloaded a raft of time consuming but low profit clients and for my internet life unsubscribed from dozens of lists.

I use Bloglines and found I had 3000 unread feeds - time to ditch them. I kept them because there could be some good info in them. But I’d never get round to reading them! They’re now gone and I’ve reduced the feeds to just a few important ones that will help me rather than be “nice” to read.

I’ve also invested in a software program that once learnt is fantastic at storing different types of files/emails/links etc in one place; ie by project etc. and is easily searchable. Took a while to set up but time saved now is immense.

Good luck Suzie - the de-clutter is worth it. Mark

]]> By: Facebook » Lighten Up By Stripping Away http://www.abundancehighway.com/lighten-up-by-stripping-away/comment-page-1/#comment-1761 Facebook » Lighten Up By Stripping Away Wed, 13 Feb 2008 07:25:12 +0000 http://www.abundancehighway.com/lighten-up-by-stripping-away/#comment-1761 [...] Abundance Highway:Journey to freedom wrote an interesting post today on Lighten Up By Stripping AwayHere’s a quick excerpt There is nothing to be added There is nothing to be integrated There is only that, that is to be stripped away. - Ramana Photo by Ikescorpio Bill MacLeod who shared this quote, during The Journey Intensive last week said, when he first heard this […] [...] [...] Abundance Highway:Journey to freedom wrote an interesting post today on Lighten Up By Stripping AwayHere’s a quick excerpt There is nothing to be added There is nothing to be integrated There is only that, that is to be stripped away. - Ramana Photo by Ikescorpio Bill MacLeod who shared this quote, during The Journey Intensive last week said, when he first heard this […] [...]

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