Ditch the old metaphors, fix your emails
It’s a mailroom not an inbox – conquer your emails by categorising them into smaller, manageable lists
Richard Allardice
#68 🏕 Make a break for the OUTSIDE wild 🧳
In brief 🩲
* 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 📖
I nearly fell backwards avoiding a snail making a break for it across our wooden floorboards. It was early evening and the light
Podcast 13: Soul of the trail
Today’s episode is about the outdoors and space: how we seek out the outdoors as a reset for our troubles; and how we negotiate physical space with our fellow humans, harmoniously or otherwise. Features:
* Pride, fancy boots and mangoes – when a forest walk, far from the madding crowd’s
#67 🧱 Brick by brick, over TIME 🏗
In brief 🩲
* Journal: Stretched to the limit
* Practical: The shape of the task at hand
* Read: Effortless production from bed
From the journal 📖
Our high school hockey coach, whom we called “Hang”, used to measure and log how far past our toes we could reach from a sitting position. Hang
#66 🗺 Point it out to me on the MAP 🌋
In brief 🩲
* Journal: Volcanoes are safe, honest
* Practical: Create a map, testudo your time
* Read: Catalogues of LOLs return
From the journal 📖
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 – navigate daily work by mapping out your time
Things I won’t 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 “Maybe later” a