Mobile Apps Galore!

 

YES YES yowwww, let's make things light today.  HOW many mobile apps do you have in your smart device?  Probably a hundred?  Or 150?  Or 200+?  Possibly.  Now for the NOT so tough question.  HOW many apps do you actively use AS IN actively?  Probably a baker's dozen give OR take away another 3 to 5 dynamic needs.  YET, with that huge number of apps, can we explain that with all the task/deadline reminders, we're still missing out📗📙📘

Missing out a scheduled Zoom/Google Meet call.  Missing to pay bills by deadline.  Missing out to buy the MUST-HAVEs at the supermarket.  Let me share something trivial here.  At one point, before I knew it, my iPhone was hosting roughly 150+ mobile apps, whew When I said ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, would you believe I managed to prune it down to more OR less 15 mobile apps now?  WHAT a relief indeed💚💛💜

HOLY HELL!  Let me share you the outcome of that massive cleanup.    My productivity rate ramped up.  My misses were down by 90%.  BTW, I DIDN'T even measure the turnaround and elapsed time as I DIDN'T do a 'time and motion' benchmarking.  Before we become guilty, the brutal truth about productivity is that we are NOT unproductive OR disorganized.  Instead, we are simply 'apps-hoarding'.  Remember that meditation app you downloaded yet you overslept till past 8am?  And your SCREEN TIME😈😈😈

SO HOW?  Will you scour the AppsStore for another TO-DO app?  OR another app luring you to ADD to BASKET and CHECKOUT?  Hell no.  Looking back NOT too far back WHEN we DIDN'T had these monstrous number of mobile apps, WHEN we were all contented with Candy Crush OR even from the olden days, Tetris, ISN'T it that life was simple, more straightforward and yet we were as productive and as efficient as we should be during those days💥💥💥

Our takeaway:  SO HOW can we live life with LESS?  LESS screen time?  LESS apps?              bandwidth?  I remember before WHEN I was staying at a plush Mumbai hotel [WHICH I called 'home' for 11 months], I was connecting to the internet via a 64kb modem connection?  And yet, even as a road warrior then, I was like [virtually] everywhere across the 14 countries I was managing then.  Without being intrusive, please do take time to assess percentage of usefulness [and frequency of use] even BEFORE you download a mobile apps [before you end up decluttering all over again😡😡😡