Digital Declutter Challenge

I challenge you to spend 30 minutes this week (how about today?) cleaning up your digital life.

Not for estate planning reasons, but just for your own sanity.

Here’s what 30 minutes can accomplish:

• Delete apps you don’t use from your phone
• Unsubscribe from email lists that clutter your inbox
• Cancel one subscription service you forgot you were paying for
• Organize your desktop or downloads folder
• Update your password for one important account
• Set up two-factor authentication for one service that doesn’t have it yet

Pick one or two things from that list. Don’t try to do everything at once, because then you’ll do nothing at once. If you get inspired and you want to do more than one session, go for it throughout the week.

The goal isn’t to become perfectly organized in 30 minutes. As if! The goal is to make your digital life a little bit more manageable.

Plus, every subscription you cancel is money back in your pocket. Every app you delete is space back on your phone. Every password you update is better security for your accounts.

Small improvements add up over time. And when you document your digital assets for estate planning purposes, you’ll be starting from a cleaner, more organized baseline.

Think of it as digital hygiene. Just like you brush your teeth regularly to prevent bigger problems later, you clean up your digital life regularly to prevent bigger headaches later.

Boring but effective.