I am trying to clean up my life from many things thathave accumulated and that
are not as they should be, either semi-broken, misconfigured, misaligned,
redundant or just plain harmful. This applies to all aspects of life, not just
the digital stuff. It is sometimes too easy to forget that one has many
different dimensions and to reduce oneself to some one or two things only.

And I often do this because I become obsessive with one thing. I just like to do
one thing at a time, often for weeks, and to do it as well as I can. But I
cannot go on like this indefinitely because I am not one dimensional. If I do so
I only harm myself in some way. 

Hardest challenge and a life quest:

Find a way of living that respects the complex makeup of my existence. 

I have a body - it wants to move, get nourished with real food.  I have a mind -
it want to work, learn, fill itself with knowledge I have a spirit - what moves
me in life (spiritus in latin means wind, breath) I have a soul - who I am in
the deepest aspects of my being

I have social obligations, I have familial duties, I have friends, I have
professional responsibilities

By careless living I often neglect a number of those aspects and become
alienated from myself, others, and this world.

Why do I do this? 

Obsession is not rational. Reason is captivated and darkened.  Apparent
simplicity is appealing - I call it apparent because it is simplisitic, not
simple - to the mind that wants to reduce burden of computation.  Sometimes we
just need to get something done and neglect is the price we pay.  Sometimes we
don't have energy to sustain a balance.