There is only so much you can do, or will do.<p>The things that you're not going to be able to do will be eliminated from your list regardless of your choice(s). The question is whether you do this deliberately or incidentally with time.<p>David Allen's <i>Getting Things Done</i> isn't a perfect system, and has flaws. That said, it's quite good, and is better than virtually anything else I've seen. I strongly recommend it.<p>In an era of information abundance, what is limited is what information consumes: attention. (Thank Herbert Simon for that observation.)<p>The other thing information consumes is <i>time</i>, and no matter how much technology improves, you have only 24 hours, 14,440 minutes, and 86,400 seconds in a day.<p>Ultimately, where information exceeds capacity to process it, what is needed is <i>fast, cheap, and guilt-free disposal</i>. Elminiating obligations without having to think about it, and without regret.<p>There are 12 months, 52 weeks, 365 days, 8,765 hours in a year (roughly 2,000 of those are spent at work, sleep, and everything else, respectively).<p>An 85 year lifespan is roughly 1,000 months, 4,500 weeks, 31,000 days, 750,000 hours.<p>Think of the things that you do once a week, or once a month. Do you read a book a week? You'll read at most 4,500 in your lifetime. If you've stacked up more than 4,500 books, either you're going to need to pick up the pace ... or you're going to leave most of them unread. Perhaps you'll only read a few sections of each. If not books, than games, videos, movies, articles, etc.<p>My suggestion is <i>either</i> to consciously select for quality, <i>or</i> to extract the most you can from what you do gain access to. Preferably some mix of both.<p>Few of the most excellent works of all of human history were written in the past 24 hours. FOMO is an exceedingly misleading anxiety.<p>Your time here is limited.<p>Yes, you need to cut back.<p>If you have a partner or someone you trust to help you with this, include them.<p>Figure out your goals, what's important to you, what's <i>necessary</i> (regardless of whether you like it or not). Count that in.<p>Eliminate as much of your current committments as possible. If you can't do so by a rational method:<p>- Elminiate by classes of accounts: entertainment, little used, media, etc.<p>- Eliminate by least used.<p>- Eliminate at random.<p>- Cut everything. Re-add those which turn out to have been useful.<p>The last approach is drastic, but <i>surprisingly</i> effective.<p>Yes, cut your discretionary spending. While you're at it, see if you can increase your income as well. Times may be tightening, but it <i>has</i> been a competitive labour market.<p>I'd suggest limiting additional storage until you can do better with what you have. Though the notion of ever-additional storage and never deleting anything is an information technology vision that seems increasiongly likely.