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Digital Spring Cleaning Toolkit
- Refresh your digital life with neurodivergent-friendly tools
+ Systems that work with your brain, your energy, and your real life
- Download our free worksheet and try the NAA (Notice, Adjust, Acknowledge) micro-reflection, inspired by our April 2025 newsletter series and podcast.
+ Reflection sessions, not rescue. A four-part arc for cleaning the layers that actually drain you.
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- Note: This toolkit is adapted from Angela Duckworth's research and her book GRIT, which explores how passion and perseverance drive meaningful achievement.
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+ The April 2026 arc
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+ Four layers. Four weeks. Each one builds on the last.
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Audit your top 3 energy leaks
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+ Before fixing anything, map where your workflow leaks energy. Rate your top recurring workflows on friction.
+ If a system fails the Grit Framework on 3 out of 4 questions, that's a design problem — not a you problem.
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Now / Soon / Reference file structure
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+ Three top-level folders. One naming rule. Your file system should reduce decisions, not create them.
+ The naming rule: YYYY-MM-DD-topic-short-context.
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Attention and notification hygiene
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+ Your distraction is understandable — your tools are designed to compete for your nervous system.
+ This week: triage channels by urgency, replace “always on” with response windows, and turn off badge anxiety.
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Maintenance rhythms — weekly, monthly, fail-soft
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+ Systems fail because they were built for perfect weeks. Build three layers: a 20-minute weekly reset,
+ a 60-minute monthly reset, and a fail-soft reset for the days when showing up at all is enough.
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What's Inside?
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- - Digital Spring Cleaning Worksheet: A 4-page resource designed to be partially or fully filled out monthly or quarterly—use it to reflect, set goals, and simplify your digital world using the GRIT framework (Passion, Perseverance, Growth, Resilience).
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2026 Grit Workflow Worksheet — Fire Horse Edition
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+ A monthly or quarterly practice for building durable digital habits using the Grit Framework.
+ Use it to audit your workflows, track friction, and build a maintenance plan that holds in real life.
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No sign-up required. Print it or fill it digitally.
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Prefer to work digitally or print it out—your choice! No sign-up required.
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NAA Framework: Notice, Adjust, Acknowledge
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- The NAA Framework is a two-minute micro-reflection designed to help you quickly regain control and clarity in your digital life:
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NAA reset — 2 minutes, anytime
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+ When your day gets fragmented or a notification spiral pulls you off track:
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- - Notice: Pause and scan your digital environment. What feels energizing? What feels draining?
- - Adjust: Make one small change—close a tab, silence a notification, or move a distracting icon.
- - Acknowledge: Give yourself credit for taking intentional action, no matter how small.
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+ - Notice: Name what's happening. “I've been ping-ponging for 20 minutes.”
+ - Adjust: Make one change. Close an inbox. Silence one app. Set a 25-minute focus timer.
+ - Acknowledge: “I just reclaimed my attention.” That's real.
- Try it now for a quick digital reset!
+ Two minutes. Compounding impact.
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Event replay
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+ Spring Cleaning Your Digital Life — Sunday, April 26, 2026
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+ A live walk-through of the Grit Framework in practice, the NAA reset, and building a maintenance plan
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Replay coming soon — check back after the event.
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- From Our April 2025 Newsletter Series
- These resources are adapted from our in-depth Digital Spring Cleaning series. Dive deeper into each week's topic:
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- - Week One: Monthly GRIT Framework for Your Digital Spring Cleaning
- - Week Two: Deepening Our GRIT Journey
- - Week Three: Monthly GRIT Reflection Worksheet
- - Week Four: A Month of GRIT and Growth
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Grit Framework
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+ A four-part workflow check-in adapted from Angela Duckworth's research on grit. Use it to evaluate
+ whether any system — a folder structure, an inbox flow, a tool — is built to last.
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+ Does this system support what matters most to me? |
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+ | Perseverance |
+ Can I keep using it on a low-energy day? |
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+ | Growth |
+ Does it improve as I use and refine it? |
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+ | Resilience |
+ Can it recover after a hard week or interruption? |
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+ If a workflow fails 3 out of 4 checks, that's a design problem — not a you problem.
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friction-maxxing
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+ Intentional inconvenience that protects your attention. The term was coined by{' '}
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+ Kathryn Jezer-Morton writing for The Cut
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+ . In a world optimized for instant escape and one-tap everything, deliberately adding small
+ pauses lets you choose with intention instead of reacting on autopilot.
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+ Examples: moving social media off your home screen, removing email from your dock, setting response
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fail-soft reset
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+ From engineering: a system that keeps operating in reduced mode when conditions are bad. For your
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On hard days, do only this:
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+ - Run NAA once.
+ - Clear one friction hotspot — desktop, inbox, or tab pile.
+ - Write one line: “What is this struggle trying to teach me right now?”
+ - Choose one next smallest move.
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What to do today
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+ - Open a note and name it “Friction Log — [Month] [Year].” Write down one friction from today.
+ - Create three top-level folders: Now, Soon, Reference. Move your five most active files into Now.
+ - Do a 24-hour notification reset: keep only human-critical alerts, silence everything else.
+ - Set 2–3 inbox response windows for tomorrow. Put them on your calendar.
+ - Build your fail-soft reset: write 3 steps you can always do on hard days. Add it as a recurring reminder.
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- Ready to take your first step?
- Try the NAA micro-reflection right now: Notice your digital space, Adjust one small thing, and Acknowledge your effort. Small changes add up!
- Inspired by the Pythoness Programmer's podcast and newsletter. Share this page with a friend who could use a digital refresh!
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+ Note: The Grit Framework is adapted from{' '}
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+ Angela Duckworth's research and her book Grit
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+ , which explores how passion and perseverance drive meaningful achievement over time.
+ This adaptation is not an official, affiliated model.
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+ From the April 2026 newsletter series
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✨ Last updated: August 2025 ✨
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Last updated: April 2026 — Pythoness Programmer
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