I love to declutter my email and social media at the start of the year. It’s easy to do while watching TV, and I notice the difference immediately.
I end up with a lot of junk email thanks to giving stores my email address and subscribing to newsletters for various reasons. Most of the time, I ignore them, but now is a good time to delete them instead.
The only social media that I spend any time with is Facebook. Like my email, it gets cluttered with all sorts of groups and pages that I’m no longer interested in. I never cared about some of these groups, but many of them, like my running streak groups, were important to me in 2020 but not in 2021. It’s time to part ways.
As with all decluttering, only delete or unsubscribe from items that no longer help your life. If you use the coupons from the emails, keep them. If you have made friends on various social media sites, stick with it.
The point of decluttering is to remove everything that is a distraction to clearly see and use that which is important to you. When I unsubscribe from my unwanted emails, I spend more time dealing with the ones that matter.
In 2021, I hope we all get to spend more time with what matters. It’s a beautiful day to start.