Comments on: Deleting to Start Fresh

By: Miami Carpet Cleaning

Miami Carpet Cleaning — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:35:04 +0000

I agree with you..Deleting a info that doesn't needed is always right..

By: Gdub

Gdub — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:49:22 +0000

Thanks for the reply Ginger!

It's important to start out conscientiously.

By: Ginger

Ginger — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:31:55 +0000

I haven't started using RSS because of the same reason. I choose carefully all the things that I really need to read and intake into my ever expanding mind. If I don't have time to go to the website, then I probably don't really have (or want to make) time to read it. There is so much information out there… you can't absorb it all and still get the necessary things done. Speaking of deleting, my team is putting together a stress release program, to be launched hopefully within the next month, that can help your brain to do the same thing… delete emotions and beliefs and anything that can interfere with the way your computer (brain) processes and handles information. It's a totally unique way to “clean out your inbox” of your mind, body, and spirit….. Get in touch with our team right now if you'd like, and be one of the first people to benefit from the technique and program! I don't normally do this when I comment, but since it really seems you enjoyed deleting your RSS feeds, I just had to share with you!

By: Gdub

Gdub — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:14:05 +0000

True words.

By: Oliver (lockerhaxor)

Oliver (lockerhaxor) — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:10:44 +0000

Oh I agree entirely there. I try to actually put the two together to ease work. For instance if I need to write up a project I'll do it all in Google Docs and whenever I want to take a quick break I'll already have the web browser open.

Then again that becomes a distraction sometimes and becomes more of a distraction then anything else.

I'm trying to find that balance. Hopefully I will someday.

By: Victor

Victor — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:56:53 +0000

Not that hard was it? Sometimes you can over commit your time. I tell people all the time…Don't say yes! Say NO!

If you feel the need to read and answer for “THEM”, you better make sure it is something you can handle.

By: thepete

thepete — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:07:44 +0000

Haha, well, you're right–but there's a balance. That's what looking at the big-picture does for us, I think. It lets us see where things are out of balance.

Oh and one thing I forgot to mention was that my google reader account got so packed with feeds I finally gave up on it entirely–didn't even delete stuff. Just walked away.

By: Gdub

Gdub — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:10:12 +0000

I almost replied with, “better late than never,” but realized that it's totally contradictory to the purpose of this post.

Anyhow, thanks for the response. It's a good comparison. We get bogged down in the minutia so often that we often miss the big picture, and thus miss out on what we started on. Good point.

By: Gdub

Gdub — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:07:16 +0000

I recall a friend of mine who was an obsessive bibliophile. He got to the point where he needed to use his books in lieu of furniture. Then, he decided on a new rule for himself: only buy a new book after finishing a book. This rule helped him out tremendously, and consequently his obsession with HAVING books finally fueled a more intense reading of books.

Just a thought.

By: thepete

thepete — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:52:50 +0000

Haha, your RSS feeds=my socnet notifications I'm just getting to this now! But if my notification pile got much higher than it is now, I'd start deleting. Once I see it hit twenty, I make the time to hack it back down. If it reaches 40, I just delete 'em. It sucks, but you can't possibly see every movie, read every book, watch every show, read every blog, listen to every podcast that you want–as sucky as that is. I have three friends who do weekly podcasts and I usually only listen to one of them. In the entertainment business, there's a saying “sometimes you have to kill your babies.” This means that sometimes you have to cut the scene from the script, kill off a character or lose that character motivation–basically, it means, for the sake of time, or content, you have to ditch something you love. Since these aren't your babies, I guess the saying becomes “sometimes, you've got to kill your friends' babies or strangers' babies.”

Wow, that's sounds much more disturbing than I meant it to sound

But it looks like everyone else has already said something similar. Ah well. I tried!!