Optimal Finance Daily · Wednesday, July 1, 2026
The speaker advocates for limiting the number of communication channels to avoid mental clutter and energy drain. By reducing the ways people can contact them, and by immediately addressing or scheduling tasks that arise from communication, stress is significantly decreased.
“I also use my calendar and email tools extensively, and try to limit the ways people can contact me.”
“At one point, I counted up that there were 15 different ways for someone to contact me, and realized that to constantly monitor all those points of contact was draining my energy.”
“I find stress comes from thinking of a task to do or seeing a communication that needs to be answered, and not taking action on it.”