I’ve spent time this week decluttering my life. I have yet to tackle my desk and we won’t even talk about all of the shelves surrounding me here in my office. But I have stopped the invasive hammering of spam coming through my blog site. Whew, it is sure a relief to no longer be faced with 30 to 100 spam messages at my blog each day. This means that you can no longer comment at my blog site. That part, I regret. I will probably turn comments back on at some point. It usually takes a while for the spam to build and for my patience to wear out. In the meantime, I can enjoy your comments.
I’ve also been unsubscribing to many enewsletters and other regular messages I’ve been getting for months/years and just deleting before opening. What’s the point in that? Do you get enewsletters and notices/announcements from businesses, individuals, organizations that no longer apply to your situation and that you stopped reading months ago? You can unsubscribe, you know.
This will clear your way to actually reading those enewsletters, announcements and notices that are of interest to you and of value to your writing/publishing work.
If you decide to do as I have this week and declutter your life, make sure that you carefully analyze the material before you hit the unsubscribe button. So often, we receive information that is beneficial to our projects, but we don’t take the time to study it and then we go off and make poor decisions that cost us money, time and the success we dreamed of.
Do you have a personal story along these lines? I’d love to hear it.
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