Things I stopped doing this year

A short list:

• Reading the news first thing in the morning. The cost was an hour of poor mood for very little new information.
• Running a personal Slack-style group chat with people I see in person every week anyway. We talk in real life now. It's better.
• Saying yes to coffee meetings I don't actually want to take. The hardest of these to drop, the one with the biggest payoff.
• Buying the cheap version of things I use every day. Counterintuitive — I now spend more per item but less per year.
• Refreshing my email when I'm waiting for something. It is never there yet. It will be when it is.

The shortest item costs me the least and gave me back the most. I'll let you guess which one.