The Email Avalanche – let it happen, let it flow, take it out

“I get so much email I just don’t know what to do about it.”

“I can’t seem to clean out my inbox…”

“I haven’t gotten to your email yet; I will get to it later.”

Heard any of those before? Have you ever had that feeling? You are not alone.

I learned that sometimes the easiest way is to learn some tricks that work around the issue, rather than trying to push through the chaos. Do a Google search for creating rules in Outlook, rules in Office 365, Filters in Gmail, and you will find all sorts of results. They all try to put the most important emails in the inbox and all others in another folder/filter.

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Cycling Zen and The Call of the Ride

I don’t practice zazen when cycling but once I get going it is close enough for me.

The aim of zazen is just sitting, that is, suspending all judgmental thinking and letting words, ideas, images and thoughts pass by without getting involved in them.

When I was a child, I cycled as a child. I rode with friends; bullies chased me; I rode downhill on insanely steep hills just for the feel of the wind rushing past me, the excitement of it, and feeling the rush of riding the edge of disaster.

If you were hauling ass down that hill and wiped out, you were going to get messed up.

When I got older, I began just to ride, anywhere just to get away from things, and to get places. When we moved to Highlands Ranch, CO. I traveled to explore and I rarely ever thought about what it would take to get home. Continue reading “Cycling Zen and The Call of the Ride” →

Work email, this is how I do it.

How do I do it? How do I get through all the emails at work?

The subject came up again recently, and I mentioned that I did it by accident as a Facebook post.

That post went something like this:

“I wasn’t trying to; I wasn’t… I reached Inbox Zero in the work email account. (Inbox was empty, other folders hold onto stuff that needs to be kept.)”

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