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Phone Contacts

Ditch what you do not need! If it is no longer servicing you, let that contact go – release the cord. There is no need to keep phone numbers for “just in case” or “maybe one day” reasons. You can find almost anyone online if you need to and reach out. Going through the phone can be a blast from the past – we do not realize all the residue of the past we have built up in our phones over the years. Because we no longer enter our contacts every time we get a new device, we do not often cleanse. At first attempt, I was going letter by letter – every time I did my cardio exercise, I would habit stack and pair the activity with deleting a letter. That was until I learned you can go on your icloud.com or your computer Contacts’ app and you can select multiple and hit delete. This was way quicker! You'll have a clean and shiny list in no time at all! Pay attention to how you feel while you are clearing out your contacts. Notice which ones give you moments of resistance – where does attachment show up? Who still has the ability to pull at your emotions? This is a brilliant self-observation exercise – it is interesting to see what thoughts, memories, or emotions come up as you scan over the names of your past.

Photos – Sort and Choose the Best Then Delete the Rest

Photo Clean Out:

• Have a backup: Get a secondary storage system outside of your phone.
• Sort what you have: An efficient way to sort your photos is by year, then by month, then by occasion or date. We often can recall in our memory what year an event was, and for this reason, when you want to find these files, it will be easier to locate.
• Keep a selection and disregard what you do not need: Condense and craft the memory you want to store.

Backing Up Is A Soulful Practice

Just as we remove things to ease our souls online, there are things we can do to prepare and never experience the loss of our most important files: Backing up is a spiritual practice – we all possess files that are important – that mean something to us – that we want to keep. Create a practice or a schedule to back up that which matters to you. What that is could be different for all of us.

Pro Tip

First, I want to encourage you to practice ancient tactics of memory keeping – printing your photos. All jokes aside, please consider printing the moments that mean a lot to you. Technology is not always concrete, and having physical copies of your most important memories is essential. Back up your photos and print those that are most important from Social Media. Many in our modern world use Social Media as a storage site for their photos. AND this is not those platforms' role or purpose – a day could come that they go down. Crash. Or are obsolete. If it really matters – to your heart – print it.

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