Rob Dial Jr. proposes a 24-hour "Great Purge" challenge: spend one day clearing physical clutter from your home, then do a digital cleanse by unfollowing accounts, deleting files, and turning off notifications. He says it breaks procrastination and resets your focus.
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I have a 24 hour challenge for you. This is what the Great Purge is. You're going to take one day, 24 hours to change your entire life. Take one day and do nothing but get rid of, okay, no distractions, no phone, no procrastinating. You're just going to get a bunch of coffee, you're going to put on your favorite dance music and you're going to clear out everything. You're just going to get rid of things that no longer serve you. So step one is to start obviously with the physical stuff. This is the easy stuff, and we'll start there. Right? Begin with your physical environment. When you look around your house, walk into every single room in your house, pick everything up and ask yourself, does this serve me? The answer is no. Toss it, donate it, sell it, get rid of it. Today, the next thing is your technology in digital space that you live in as well. So you're going to go on your Instagram, you're going to go on your TikTok, your YouTube, you're going to go on whatever other accounts of things that you use. You're just going to unfollow all of the accounts in social media that don't serve your life in some way. You're going to go through and you're going to delete all of your old files that are on your computer. You're going to delete all of your old emails that you don't need. You're going to delete all of the apps on your phone that you don't use. You're going to go through your notifications and you're going to take off all of the notifications that are not absolutely urgent for you to get.