Simplify your Life on Internet

Today, we have a lot of facilities like the Computers on our lap, Internet connectivity, Mobile phones, etc. to augment our efficiency. But many of us feel that in-spite of being busy all the time, results of our performance are negligible. This is an indication to a bitter fact that the facilities have added complexities to our lives. To be a star performer, we need facilities but should not be driven by them but rather drive them to our applications. For example, email is the best way to communicate with others all over the globe and it looks lucrative to start our days with opening of email boxes, which often are found full of messages – both desirable and undesirable. We get involved in them and our precious time in reading messages, replying them or marking spams, etc. The result is that our time is consumed in a redundant activity, leaving little for useful activities. To avoid such things, there is a way.

Mark your possible activities as objective, supportive and redundant, and go for them in this order only with objective activities first and redundant at the last if time permits. This will simplify your life and make objective use of your time and other resources.

I put it like this – we must be objective driven rather than input-driven. Mind it our inputs may be objectives of others and not necessarily yours so segregate them into your objectives and those of others and give priority to the first category. For the other category, pay attention only if you have spare time. To streamline this process, have 2 or 3 mail boxes for yourself and earmark them for different purposes, keeping one of them related to your direct objectives.and others for other less-important communications. If you are able to that, you need to open the objective mailbox daily while others can be kept waiting for weekly or fortnightly openings.

An instance comes to my mind. In olden times when Internet was not at your service, a reputed author used to open his letter box once a month to reply his mails. In this period, many of his mails got outdated and he could ignore them easily. This strategy is similar to what I suggested above. .