Becoming aware of shadow work
enables us to prune away some of the clutter in our lives. Take,
for example, surveys—the inundation of our time with surveys,
requests for surveys. It seems youcan’tbuy anything or go anywhere or receive
any service without having a followup survey usually emailed to you
to ask you, “How did we do?” And I would just encourage the
citizens to throw those away if theydon’tfeel like writing them. We are not
obligated to fill out these surveys, but these organizations are
preying on our time and asking us to do it. Andthat’sthe kind of clutter that youcan prune away.