Monday, January 31, 2011

It's almost February

On January 7, I had an empty inbox for the first time since I could remember. How does my inbox look at the end of the month? Well, see for yourself:











I admit, it has become a little bit of an obsession to keep it empty, but the end result is that the things I need to accomplish today are all on my to-do list. It also encourages me to get things done because I write my to-do list by hand each day, and I really don't like re-writing things...

The end result of this is a real sense of freedom and of being in control of my day. That is totally worth the time it took to get here...

Joel

2 comments:

Drip Drip Drip said...

Just because the box is empty, doesn't mean you've got things done...it just means you've moved my emails into a "To do later" box....ha ha

renewingmind said...

Ah Paul,

I just delete your emails, I don't file them :-)

Joel