Lately I have been reading fewer and fewer blogs. It is not that I do not think many provide valuable information, but my Google Reader count was causing me undo stress! Every time I’d log on, I’d be further and further behind. I have found that un-subscribing was a good thing for me to do, because I am now able to stay caught up with what I am subscribed to and I am still getting the information that is important to me. There were really just a few blogs that were piling up, and I made the decision that if you had twenty plus posts accumulating in my Reader, I was not really reading the blog anyway.
The second reason I unsubscribed to some blogs– the authors were too negative and/or manic depressant. It seems as though some people enjoy writing every other or more often whining about his/her life, never doing something to change the situation or writing the extreme highs and lows. I am NOT trying to say that blogs should be positive all of the time, nor am I trying to control what people write about, but I am controlling what I read. I found that negative blogs were impacting me negatively, so as much as I might enjoy checking in on the author(s), it was time for an internet breakup of sorts. It was hard to do, but it had to be done.
Where am I going with all of this?
Bottom Line Up Front — I am working on de-stressing my own life and finding the things I truly enjoy, and that means acknowledging that I cannot be all things to all people; my interests change; and less actually is more. I am pinpointing things that no longer work with my life.
Have you ever tried to de-clutter your life? What did it look like? How was it? Did you stick to it?
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