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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Relationships and those around me

I recently completed my second L360, and one of the things I saw in the results was a need to work on relationship skills.

It is talking about personal skills with co-workers and clients, that sort of stuff. I think it is probably something deeper. I have never really been one to be the social life of the party. At large parties, I stick to smaller groups and have stayed near the outside of the crowd in case I needed to get away for a few minutes.

Friends, real friends, I have few. I always have been that way, all the way back as far as I can remember. I usually have a core group of people of whom I trust and within that group sometimes emerges someone who I trust implicitly or better than that I feel as if they are a brother or sister that I never had. If you were lucky enough to be one of those people you saw all sides of me, you knew me, and I knew you. I was comfortable around you, told you anything and all the things that go with a close relationship like that.

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