We all have a lot of stuff. We have so much stuff that there is over 2.35 billion square feet of self storage units in the United States. We have closets full of clothes we have not worn for years. We have multiple email accounts with hundreds or even thousands of emails. We have desks that have stacks of stuff on them. We have multiple calendars filled with appointments. Here are 7 ways to simplify all of this.

7 Ways to Simplify your Life

1. Clean Your Closet
   • Schedule a Saturday morning to clean your closet
   • Take all the clothes and shoes you have not worn in the last year and give them away to one of your favorite charities
2. Clean Your Email
   • Set up an offline folder for your unread email
     • Set rules for email to go to an offline folder automatically.
   • Reduce the number of emails you get in a day by unsubscribing as you receive solicitation emails
   • Delete your trash
   • Take action on email
     • Read and take action when you read the email
     • Move unwanted emails to trash
     • Move emails you want to keep to your offline folder for unread email or to Evernote to read later
3. Clean Your Desk
   • Keep your desktop clean
   • Focus on one thing at a time
   • Purchase a simple organization system. A tray or box for working on, need to delegate, need to file and need to shred.
4. Clean Out Your Cell Phone
   • Delete all the apps you have not used in the last 60 days
5. Get Rid of Your Storage Unit
   • Sell everything you don’t need or give it to charity
   • Bring everything else home and save yourself the storage cost
6. Evernote
   • Get Evernote to go paperless
   • Invest in a Scansnap scanner or use the one with your printer to scan to Evernote
7. Calendar
   • Use a  calendar system
   • Use separate work and home calendars if that works better for you
   • Schedule fun things in to your calendar

Be Great!