Ditch the old metaphors, fix your emails Itโs a mailroom not an inbox โ conquer your emails by categorising them into smaller, manageable lists
#68 ๐ Make a break for the OUTSIDE wild ๐งณ In brief ๐ฉฒ * Journal: Slowly making a break for it * Practical: Delisting your inbox * Listen: Charging into the outside wild with naught but a whim From the journal ๐ I nearly fell backwards avoiding a snail making a break for it across our wooden floorboards. It was early evening and the light
#67 ๐งฑ Brick by brick, over TIME ๐ In brief ๐ฉฒ * Journal: Stretched to the limit * Practical: The shape of the task at hand * Read: Effortless production from bed From the journal ๐ Our high school hockey coach, whom we called โHangโ, used to measure and log how far past our toes we could reach from a sitting position. Hang
#66 ๐บ Point it out to me on the MAP ๐ In brief ๐ฉฒ * Journal: Volcanoes are safe, honest * Practical: Create a map, testudo your time * Read: Catalogues of LOLs return From the journal ๐ Omid is a 6 foot 4 Iranian man with well-groomed hair who kicks the standing bag at our taekwondo gym so hard it tumbles away end over end
Block your time, testudo your calendar Stop wandering in circles โย navigate daily work by mapping out your time
Things I wonโt miss once my kids get a little older * Never being able to go to the toilet alone. Someone is always talking to me through the door, or trying to come in. To a child, a door merely means they must yell through it to be heard. * Being given mere seconds between demands. When I say โMaybe laterโ a
#65 ๐ฅฃ The Goldilocks depth of FOCUS ๐ In brief ๐ฉฒ * Journal: An insurance movie scene about demise * Practical: Map every second of every day, but calmly * Quotable: Wait โย why am I talking? From the journal ๐ Today I spent a compulsory hour with an insurance broker named Jake hypothesising when I might die. Itโs fractionally easier to talk