Be More with Less? "The future you see, is the future you get!"
Arn't you tired of too much clutter and tons of paper you collect in your homes and offices over years? I saved every contract, documents, bank statements, magazin articles, I even found printed emails, piled up for decades but last year I finally took the first step. I burnt most of those stuffed up folders in the back of my Balinese garden and Yes, I feel free!
How do you enjoy your life with less ? Minimalism: A Documentary About the Important Things
Are you still trapped? I wonder how will you transform your own world, maybe also go paperless those upcoming years?
Here are the top 10 ways to go paperless, save trees, go green and make a positive impact to the planet!
The Struggle Between Quantity Versus Quality
Make Room for Love!
I collected some tips:
- shoot your receipts on your phone and don't bring them home.
- stop printing things.
- use Instagram for photos
- go digital with banking and bills.
- find one place to store your files like me in Dropbox.
Exploring the world's digital future
Wow! I officially entered into the digital future, the crypto-space and so proud that I am capable to adjust to a different world.
Strive for freedom!
I am free to go, wherever I want with the most important life data, stored in just 1 Mac Book Pro, boosted up to 1 huge terabyte space. Just imagine for a minute how amazing this really is. When I grew up I never thought this would be possible. We do not need to be tight to our desks anymore. We can read or write books on our tablets, travel and work, be creative, create artwork and music, keep in touch with dear friends wherever they are.
Cisco Systems believes that in 2016 digitisation should be a priority, as technology strategies will play a critical role.- Source
John Chambers, the executive Chairman of Cisco Systems, has been involved in building the infrastructure of the Internet since the 80's and on his trip to Doha he noted in Feb 2017 : "You're going to have three to five times the impact of the Internet in this new digital era. You can call it the fourth generation of technology or a digital revolution that every country, every city, every company in the world, every person goes digital". - Source
Ten years ago, the number of devices connected to the Internet was under a billion. Now, that number has exploded to 20 billion and it will continue to increase. Mobile computing, driverless connected cars and interactive fridges are a reality.- Source
I do understand that it all sounds totally normal for our kids but its not for my mother and not even for me. Most of my friends and people of my generation, born late 50's are having a hard time to adapt and I am sure its difficult for many to let go of our ways. Recently, I had to explain to my oldest friend how to create a gmail account and that you can save your data in a cloud.
We are the generation who used the first mobil devices and I couldn't even walk in my high heels, taking out the huge portable phone box, set up in my Peugeot 205 convertible but we were so proud with our mobil phone of those days.
So, Please forgive! :)
The first cellphone went on sale 33 years ago for $4,000 and I got the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X.
My message for the older generations : Embrace Change!
"In terms of the interconnectivity of our daily lives, Chambers offered an interesting point: "When Cisco started in 1984, there were 1,000 devices connected to the Internet. Today, there are 17 billion."In 10 years, 500 billion. The whole key is to get the right information, at the right time, to the right machine, to the right person to make the right decision. The end result will be new business models. You will probably live five to 10 years longer because we'll improve the quality of healthcare so much." - Source
Of course it was not easy to change over those past years, catching up with new technologies, now even go paperless 1000% to let go off so many nostalgic items, especially paper books I love so much.
I turned up my favourite music and destroyed every single bank statement( I felt great). I hesitated to throw away some of my paper pictures, even though most I already lost years ago in a New York storage. I still feel romantic over those and couldn't let go of them.
It took me weeks to set apart the legal documents from paper clutter. Unfortunately we still need those original docs for government offices. Crazy enough, I lost that "important stuff" bag weeks after my arrival in my hometown and had to run around for weeks to get copies. What a nightmare!
Yesterday I heard about the Investment Punk Akademie based in Vienna and I was curious, started searching and ran into this Ted talk from 2015 which inspired me to reflect upon my progress what I do to embrace the future!
