Fewer complications lead to more time
It's mathematics, pure and simple. If we complicate things, we end up having to deal with so much crap that we end up wasting time.
You must have, at some point thought: ‘Why is my time wasted by meaningless chores and annoyances?’ So why not step back, re-group your thoughts and make an action plan on how to fix the issue?
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do you feel that things are way more
complicated than they need to be things
are just so complicated that you just
get annoyed at every turn my name is Kay
at my tech monist and I help people
organize their technology so they can
free up their time so this morning I had
a client come in and she had some issues
with her email now a short story she had
a but she was in the States she had a
problem with her computer she went to
the geniuses in the Apple Store and they
said well we just need to format the
drive which was a bit weird but anyway
so they formatted it because she had a
Time Machine backup
she put the Time Machine backup back and
her email wasn't working story of my
life I hear this all the time she
couldn't understand why they couldn't
help her they said contact her domain
host where her email is hosted she
contacted them they reset a few things
and it still didn't work she contacted
me within five minutes
I fixed it literally for 10 minutes it
was actually to do with the wrong
password now the thing is why am I
talking about this about regarding
complications with this episode well
people look at the most complicated
issue than the most simple it was a
simple fixed password issue but they're
wiping hard drives they're resetting
things at the main house they're doing
all of this stuff just doesn't didn't
have to happen so my point is to have
less complications with tech melanism
get rid of all the things that you don't
need whether it's in your life whether
it's on your phone whether it's on your
computer whether it's your clothes
whatever it is and I'm not talking about
minimalism and talking about
complications in your life in general
and that equates to you working and
creating more time for yourself the less
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the more time you have for yourself it's
it's simple it's it's mathematics I
guess
Einstein wouldn't be happy but it is
basically mathematics do less of this
you have more of that stop complications
free up your time and it's it still
amazes me how people work on their
computers on their max how that what
their workflow is like because I mean
email is a big thing for me if you have
more than one or two folders in your
email you're doing it wrong you're just
simply wasting your time and you're
doing it wrong
the the only folder I have is inbox
which is an inbox not even a folder and
archive which is actually again not not
really a folded it's an archive but I'll
just say two folders you read it you get
rid of it
this person lost a bunch of sent items
for some reason they weren't going to
her IMAP server so she lost about 3,000
emails just in her sent items a lot of
stuff that's important to her so we have
to try to get it back from the back up
anyway that's it for this episode I just
wanted to make a quick video today this
Friday I hope you guys having a good day
hope you have a fantastic weekend as
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I'm making it too complicated are going
to try to simplify this I'm gonna try to
simplify this anyway have a great
weekend I'll see you on Monday and as
always
it's simple see you then Joe