Guest post by Les McKeown, president and CEO of Predictable Success.

Last weekend I tossed out six boxes of techno-junk. Six boxes! I’m talking BlackBerries, iPhones, old Nanos and Shuffles, computer keyboards, a Bamboo tablet, a Logitech I/O Pen (what on earth was that?), speakers, headsets, and more cables than I would need in three lifetimes – and that was in just one of the boxes.

See, I am a techno-addict (or as the gadget manufacturers call me so as to keep me guilt-free and buying their stuff, an “early adopter”). If it’s shiny and new, I’m there, usually accompanied by my good pal, “overnight shipping.”

So I was taken aback when I surveyed my newly cleared work environment on Sunday afternoon and realized how good it felt to see all that stuff…gone. I sat for a while, drinking it in, stunned by how freeing it was. It became clear that I had tied up a lot of psychic energy in my head just by having all that stuff hanging around – even if it had been jammed behind a bulging cupboard door. (more…)