My good friend, and mentor, Scott Fanning taught me to avoid the clutter. He was talking more specifically about all the things that distract us from what we should be doing. Scott is an amazing guy who is an entertaining teacher and always looked for ways to make his job, your job, or anyone’s job fun.
Today we have some wonderful tools that we can use to help us do our job better and faster. But just like the days of a desk buried in paper, if we aren’t careful, the clutter can enter our life and make us less efficient.
Following, is an article from the New York Times by Sam Grobart, titled “Six Steps to Decluttering Your Smartphone”:
"When I was a little boy, my mother used to scare me into cleaning my room with tales of the Collyer brothers. You know about the Collyers, right? Two brothers. Lived together. Hoarded everything. Everything. Like, whole rooms filled to the ceiling with stuff. One brother died when a stack of ephemera collapsed on him. The other brother, already paralyzed and blind, died of starvation days later.
“Sleep tight, Sammy,” my mother would say before tucking me in.
Sometimes, when I look at other people’s smartphones, I’m reminded of those unfortunate brothers. I see screen after screen of apps, with no end in sight. The combination of novelty, a (usually) low price and an industry that has no shortage of innovation means that we have opportunities to get new apps almost daily.
But the end result is app overload. Too much clutter. Memory wasted on apps that were cool on Christmas morning, but now lie at the back of the closet, unused and unloved.
It doesn’t have to be this way. I’ve devised a system that provides me with a broad variety of apps, while still keeping them at a number that’s usable and not overwhelming. Here are the steps..."
As Mr. Fanning says, avoid the clutter!
J. Robert Saron
President
Bovie Medical Corporation
