Oh digital clutter, how you irk me - incessant emails, duplicate pictures from multiple camera dumps, old stories, college essays, multiple versions of resumes, financial spreadsheets and goal logs cluttering up my digital space and thus my mind (and this is just my laptop!).I am having extreme resistance to lugging out the 2 old desktop computers from my spare bedroom, setting them up and diving in to moving/organizing files to my external hard-drive. I just do not want to do it. I would much rather be outside, talking to my mentor, brainstorming my newest writing idea or (like today) sitting on the floor at work creating environmental posters. I love connecting with people and creating things, organizing not so much.To motivate myself to declutter the digital mess that is my current life I will need to focus on things I enjoy doing - connecting and creating. How can I link the digital clutter to my joys?

Learning to use gmail filters and folders will allow me to read the most important emails from my most important connections first (leaving the junk mail and less important emails to be automatically filed into another folder to be looked at later or ignored)
Organizing my digital photos will allow me to create beautiful albums (either online or in print) thus unleashing my creativity
Re-reading and organizing my environmental essays and creative writing will keep me inspired to continue writing :)
Decluttering digital space will allow me to get rid of two desktop computers which frees up space (physical space but also emotional space because one of the computers is an ex-boyfriends that I need to return). I'm not dating during my 20-week Vibrant Life Cleanse but who couldn't use some freed up mental space for attracting positive energy :)

Brainstorming the connection between the task (declutter digital world) and my goals (connection, creation, less physical clutter) has helped me immensely. I feel ready to complete the task and have scheduled a block of time this weekend to do it. Hooray!