165: Declutter Your Digital Life for Instant Mental Clarity

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We organize our desks and clean our homes, but what about our digital lives?

In today’s Thrive in 5, I’ll show you how to declutter your inbox, desktop, and apps to instantly reduce decision fatigue and get your focus back. If your screens feel messy and overwhelming, this simple reset will make a huge difference.

What we cover:

• How digital mess creates invisible stress
• The “Today Only” inbox system
• Desktop + downloads cleanup in under 5 minutes
• How to group and hide apps to reclaim your mental space

🎯 You don’t have to clean everything at once. You just have to start.

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Episode Transcript

(00:00):
Digital Clutter can sneak up onus and drain more energy than we
realize.
In this episode of Thrive InFive, I'll walk you through how
to organize your inbox files andapps so you can focus faster and
feel more in control every timeyou open your device.

(00:43):
Let's talk about somethingthat's easy to ignore, but
massively impacts your focus.
It's digital clutter.
We clean our homes, we organizeour desks, but what about the
place we spend most of ourworkday, our phones, inboxes,
desktops, tabs, apps, when thosedigital spaces are messy, it
creates just as much overwhelmas physical clutter.

(01:05):
And the worst part, you may noteven realize how much it's
slowing you down.
So today I want to give you afew quick ways to declutter your
digital life because everyclick, scroll, and search should
move you forward and not stealyour energy.
First start with your inbox.
If your email is chaos, yourbrain is low key on edge all day

(01:27):
long.
Unsubscribe from things youdon't read.
Use folders and labels forthings you do need.
Set aside 10 minutes everymorning or evening.
Just for email triage.
Here's a bonus tip for you.
Create a today only folder andmove anything urgent into it so
you can actually focus.
Instead of drowning in 1,394messages, the next step is to

(01:51):
declutter your desk, desktop anddownloads.
You know that feeling when youopen your laptop and you see 37
random files everywhere?
Yeah.
That is not helping your mentalclarity, so take five minutes.
To delete, rename or moveanything that you don't need
this week, use folders likearchive or to sort or active

(02:13):
projects to create a system thatworks for you.
The next thing to do is to audityour apps.
If your phone is your secondbrain, make sure it's not
clogged up.
Delete apps you don't use.
Move distracting ones off yourhome screen.
Better yet, use folders labeledby function like create focus,
quick access, or occasional,even small changes like this can

(02:37):
remove friction and increaseflow.
This works because your brain isprocessing decisions.
Constantly.
Every little distraction from acluttered screen to a messy
inbox adds invisible stress.
And when you clean up yourdigital life, you reduce
decision fatigue, feel more incontrol, and create space for

(02:57):
what matters.
If you wanna implement thisimmediately, here are your
action steps today.
Unsubscribe from five emailsthat you never open, clear your
desktop or downloads folder fora fresh workspace, delete or
group unused phone apps toreduce distractions.

(03:17):
You don't need to organizeeverything in one sitting.
Just start where you are.
A few focus minutes today cancompletely change how you feel
tomorrow.
You've got this.