Digital fitness means mental fitness

Doing your work in less time, with less effort, and still be more effective?

Yes, you can.

As a knowledge worker, you spend an average of, anywhere between, 3 to 6 hours per day looking at a screen. Most of that time is spent finding, processing, storing, and sharing information.

How do you do that, in actuality? How do you let your devices and tools work for you, instead of causing friction and frustration?

Digital Fitness is here to help!

Is looking at a screen for more than 4 hours a day part of your work and are you feeling frustrated and overwhelmed?

You’re not alone.

Annually (!) the average knowledge worker spends:

240 hours searching for files and information.
40 days to compensate for things they forgot or lost
between 40 and 400 hours messing around with their computer

Digital Fitness is committed to dialing back those numbers through training courses and custom workshops. We provide a rigorous training program where learning together is the key to success.

If you are curious and want to know more, feel free to drop us a line

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Who is Digital Fitness for?

• For people whose work consists of finding, processing, storing, and sharing information.

• For people who work behind a screen 3 to 6 hours a day. That includes laptops, tablets, and smartphones.

• For people who want to be able to do their job in less time, with less stress, and yet be more effective

If these things sound familiar to you, in all likelihood, you are a knowledge worker! This means that Digital Fitness is meant for you!

What is Digital Fitness?

The 5 fundamentals

Digital Fitness consists of a framework that has been comprised of 5 fundamentals. Depending on the type of work that you do, what role you have within a company, and the amount of responsibility that comes with your job, one of the fundamentals might be more relevant for you than another.

They can be read in random order, however, they are interconnected.

The digital context wherein you live and work.
How does digitization impact our attitude and behavior on an individual level and an organizational level? The digital reality is that knowledge workers need a new perspective on how to organize themselves and their teams. This awareness is imperative for employers and employees alike to be able to see the other fundamentals in the right context.
The circumstances under which you work with your digital tools, together and alone.
As a knowledge worker, you have to deal with a surplus of information daily. How do you ensure that all this information is stored safely and accessible to whoever needs it?
The digital skills with which you operate your equipment.
Despite the rise of IT and automation, we seem to be busier than ever before and the reason for that is that we don’t fully understand our digital tools. If we become more adept at using our tools we can reduce stress and find more time.
How you collect, organize, analyze, store, and reshare information.
With technology moving at the pace that it is, some very simple yet very powerful pkm-tools have hit the market, which makes working with information easier and more efficient. PKM is the solution for a lot efficiency issues for modern organizations.
How you leverage technology for personal development and growth.
As humans, we aim to be happier, and healthier and lead fulfilling lives. Technology can help us. To be our ‘Second brain’ for instance, that helps us collect data and provide valuable insights into our routines or work life.

“It’s hard to make a difference if you can’t find your keys”

One, if not the one, of your most important resources, is your knowledge capital. Oddly enough we tend to store this under our mattresses, better known as folders, subfolders, and documents. Accessing your knowledge capital, when it is stored this way, can be inefficient, time-consuming, and energy-draining.

This lack of information liquidity can be the cause of great limitations in your work. Digital Fitness can help you manage your information liquidity much more effectively.

It’s hard to make a difference if you can’t find your keys. by Marilyn Paul

About the founders

Digital Fitness is an initiative by Martijn Aslander and Mark Meinema. Both have an extensive track record in the digital fitness domain. Through their respective careers, they have garnered an impressive network of experts, creators, and thinkers to contribute content, podcasts, and expert meetups to the Digital Fitness courses and its community.

Mark Meinema

From TEDx Groningen to Teheran: Mark has worked all over the world as a speaker, speaking coach, educator, and teacher for over 25 years.

With a background in IT to boot, Mark has specialized in combatting “filter failure’, better known as information noise.

Once addressed you can get to work with only current and relevant information, which you can now filter from your enormous stockpile of information.

Martijn Aslander

For well over a decade Martijn has been one of the most prolific speakers in the network and information society space. His books Easycratie and Never finished (Nooit Af) can be counted as mandatory reading for managers.

As a stand-up philosopher, he researches and gives a voice to technological and digital advances and how they could solve issues, make life easier, and empower people. Through this new initiative, he once again is pioneering the future of work as we know it