Todays habit: Close a few browser tabs .

For whenever youre feeling: Overwhelmed by the amount of tabs you have open.

What it is: I work with people who are totally fine with dozens (yes, dozens) of browser tabs open. Theyve got the basics: email, calendar, Google Drive, social media pages, Slack. But then add on others: that 5,000-word article theyve been meaning to read since last week; the quiz that tells them which Christmas movie they are; their Amazon shopping cart; not to mention the many tabs with all their work-related tasks.

But whenever I have more than five tabs open, I get panicky and overwhelmed, and as soon as I start closing tabs, I feel more organized about my day.

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How it can help: If youre one of those people who isnt bothered about leaving a ton of tabs open, then why are you even here? But if you want to cut them down to a more manageable number, well, youve come to the right place. Lets Marie Kondo your browser!

For starters, you will be a lot more focused if you only have five tabs open as opposed to a dozen.

As Erin Greenawald at The Muse explains: While you can argue that tabs save you time (I dont have to re-open my Gmail every time I need to check something!) or that theyre a way to keep you from getting distracted (Im just saving that article for later!), I think, deep down, we all know the truth: Tabs really feed our propensity to multitask and drain our ability to focus on our work.

This is something that Ellen Scott of Metro calls task switching.

Having a bunch of tabs open is a digital way of us task-switching, and its the ultimate form of distraction, Scott writes. We may think that while were focused on one tab, we can block out all the others that are open. But in truth theyre still there, in the corner of our eye and taking up mental energy.