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what if... i woke up tomorrow to find you touching yourself and moaning in my submissions?
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I've done it, I've surpassed inbox zero!
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I didn't realize when I started writing fanfics that I was gonna have soooo much less time to read them. I'm 707 updates behind. :((((( Not to mention the whole shelf of physical books I'd planned to read in 2023.
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As much of a joke as it is, Ive seen yall cupcakes asking. This is essentially what he suggests:
How to "do" Inbox Zero:
As soon as you get an email, sort it. It goes into one of these:
Delegate, Defer, Respond, Do, Delete
At the top of every hour, you "do" them. Delegate is giving to someone else, defer is waiting, do is doing whatever it needs, respond is responding, or delete it. Do this for a certain amount of time, or until done (cant remember which)
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#maury the hormone monster#maury beverly#maurice beverly#connie lacienega#constance 'connie' la cienega#connie the hormone monster#connie the hormone monstress#inbox zero#mpreg#unplanned pregnancy#human resources#netflix human resources#big mouth#maya rudolph#nick kroll#tw abuse#tw hitting#abortion
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all memes done, lordy
i only deleted a couple, typically only ones in which i’d already answered a couple for ppl, but they’re all queued!
i’m going to hop over to wanda and finish those memes too, and then i’ll be doing my drafts! thanks for your patience, y’all
#i may have to hop off randomly bc i gotta clean the room#but ill be on all night bc i got nothing else to do today#so#i just wanna finish these memes#INBOX ZERO
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Inbox Zero is fake productivity. Inbox Fuckit is getting shit done in the real world. Relax. Embrace Fuckit. Give it a try and see if anyone notices.
That Sunday Feeling
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My work email inbox is down to a dozen messages, none of them unread. Considering that I had hundreds of unread messages in there earlier in the week, I'm feeling pretty satisfied with myself. It has been months since the inbox message list could fit on the screen without scrolling.
I'm sure it'll all fill up again as soon as the students start freaking out about their final projects, but I might get a few days of peace before that happens.
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The e-mail use case unacknowledged at Gmail: showing only unread messages
The experience of using Gmail--especially as a paying Google Workspace customer--can make me wonder how many people at Google actually use e-mail.
My version of Inbox Zero is not having no messages at all in my inbox–no mail account I open lasts in that mythical state more than its few seconds–but having no unread messages in an inbox. That is a low bar. And yet Google’s mail apps, the ones I use for not just my Gmail account but also for my work and home accounts, make that difficult to clear.
The problem surfaces in the absence of a…
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#Apple Mail#gmail#Gmail labels#inbox zero#is:unread#label:unread#mail app#mail client#mail UI#Mozilla Thunderbird#unread e-mail#unread messages
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Ari Meisel talks about email productivity and reinterprets the notion of Inbox Zero.
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There is no indicator of depression more reliable than “how far I am from inbox zero.”
Pleased to announce I’ve just gotten back to inbox zero.
#depression#inbox zero#why yes i wrote this and stuck it in drafts to make sure i followed through on it
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Evening Prayer - 13 Feb 2023
There’s an awful lot about my life that is way beyond my control, God. Still, it feels good to empty an inbox or to catch up on a stack of bookmarked articles or to write a little reflection about something I’m concerned about. Thank you for a day when I could do that kind of thing. Amen.
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Clear your Inbox (The Easy Way)
In was early in the year 2002. Sometime after New year’s resolutions and all that.
I sat in my office surrounded by stacks of books and papers and sermons and mail. I felt like a hoarder. But I didn’t want to be a hoarder. I had an email inbox that looked pretty much like my office, except inside the matrix.
It was a terrible day of overwhelm and feeling like a failure for not having the ability to keep up with stuff.
If I had a do-over for that day, I would be much more gracious to myself. We were entering into new territory regarding information. The digital age was fully upon us. We didn’t have the tools to deal with the deluge. We didn’t have the systems to harness the pixels.
I just sat there feeling bad about myself and about my lack of ability to deal with the aftermath of the World Wide Web.
Thankfully my good friend, Joel, was dealing with the same issues as me in those days. He was an entrepreneurial knowledge worker, before said jobs were quite as ubiquitous. I can’t remember which of us heard about David Allan first, but we read Getting Things Done together. It was one of the most game-changing books I ever read. (I’m pretty sure Joel found it as helpful as I did.)
What David Allan Taught Me
I sat in my office, cracked open the GTD book and implemented as I read. It took me about a week. But when that week was over, I had (more or less) wrangled everything. My inbox was clear. My office was clean. I had to-dos and projects organized in lists. It was the first time I felt in control in years. It was fantastic.
Don’t be deceived. This isn’t a “happily ever after” story. I’ve most definitely fallen off the productivity wagon lots of times since then. But here the things that stick with me 21 years after reading David Allan for the first time:
1. You gotta have a system:
Without a system for “stuff” — “stuff” takes over everything. Especially when your “stuff” is digital.
2. The system must be one that your brain trusts:
If your brain doesn’t really believe it will find the impotent stuff, the stuff that really matters, you will go back to keeping everything on the best or in your inbox, so you don’t lose it.
3. Think in terms of action:
The key questions is always “What do I do with this?” This eliminates your options. (More on the practicalities below.)
This is way a lot of people keep thousands of emails in their inbox, and that it would be inconceivable to clear that stuff out. The ever elusive “Inbox 0” is a pipe dream.
I get my inbox to zero at least three times per week, most of the time every day.
I don’t lose emails, and if you email me, it will get answered and will not get lost.
Here’s my system that I trust:
First a few general email principles:
Use Email for What It’s Good At.
Don’t Use Email for What It’s Bad At.
Email is great at:
● Non-urgent communication across time zones
● Non-urgent communication to teams
● Document sharing
Email is a bad at (I would say VERY bad at):
● To do lists
● Scheduling
● Hard conversations
Process Email During Specified Blocks of Time
For me, it’s mid-morning, mid-afternoon, and before quitting time. There’s no “right time” however. Depending on your context, you may need to process more frequently — or even less frequently.
Have Separate Email Addresses for Work Roles/Personal
This has to do with the cost of context shifting. Most people just have personal and work email. I have an email address for two different work roles, personal, and my website. The key is to separate, so when you due process email, you can focus on one area at a time. Context shifting between various roles at work and your personal life takes a toll. It will make you tired.
Get to Inbox Zero Regularly (At Least Once Per Week)
This will assure your brain that there are no snakes in the grass, lying in wait to bite you.
Finally, the good stuff. Here is my system for inbox zero.
Open a single inbox.
Open a single email (I usually start at the top. But you can start at the bottom.)
Ask this question:
Is there any action I need to take with this?
The answer to this question for most email is, “No”.
Then your next action is quite simple.
Delete it.
Or you can archive it if you’re not comfortable with deleting things. The point is to get it out of your inbox.
Great, there’s a sale at Best Buy. But I’m not buying crap at Best Buy this week. Eliminate that bad boy from your life.
Is there an action I need to take that will take two minutes or less?
Do it.
Now.
The two-minute rule is a principle I learned from David Allen that I still employ today. Can I get this done in two minutes or less? A quick reply. A quick read. Two minutes. It’s done. You’re done. The email is gone.
Is there an action that will take longer than two minutes?
Get that on a list.
I use Asana for my task lists. I break down my tasks into these categories:
Brainstorms (Ideas that need clarity/projects that need to be broken down into steps and tasks)
Bullies and Bulldozers (tasks that need prolonged focus or Deep Work)
Busywork (generally administrative tasks)
Some people also have a “waiting for” list when you need a reply from someone. I tend to snooze the emails I want to follow up with. If I need a conversation with someone, I don’t send an email, except to maybe schedule an appointment using Calendly. This eliminates 752 back and forth emails.
Almost every email that needs a more than 2-minute action will go on this list.
Get it on your list and archive the email.
Is there an action I want to take on this at a specific time?
Simple solution here. Pick a day and put it on a calendar.
Archive
Is this something I don’t want to decide on right now?
If so, I snooze it. My email app is called Airmail for Mac. It has a beautiful snooze feature. Gmail has a snooze feature as well. Use this. It will make your life so much better.
Is this information I would like to read later?
I use a tool called SaneBox, and create a folder called Saturday morning. This puts the email (usually a newsletter I’m interested in) into a folder, and it magically reappears on Saturday, when I have the luxury of reading such things.
I will also forward such things to my Instapaper account to read later as well.
This is the basic plan I follow, and the tools I use. My inbox is cleared out most days. If there’s an ongoing, current project, I will occasionally leave a couple of emails in my inbox for a few days. But part of my Friday ritual is to decide on everything and get to the pretty little Inbox Zero icon.
You can do this.
You need a system that your brain trusts. My brain trusts my system. And I rarely miss anything.
If this topic interests you, there are a couple of things you might be interested in.
1. I am doing a webinar for Global Trellis on Tuesday, at 9:00 AM EST this week. This webinar is designed for cross cultural workers. But I will be going through the information above and showing you exactly how I use these tools to keep my email cleared out with relative ease. Sign up here, if you’re interested in joining.
2. Growability® Coaching includes robust tools and training for time management, if that’s something you feel like you need help with. Set up a quick call with me if you want to up your leadership (and time-management!) game with some coaching.
3. Also – SaneBox is an email tool I can’t function without. If you want an extra $5 bucks off, use my promo code here and check it out.
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Working in tandem with the trick of dedicating concentrated time to batching similar email replies together, reaching inbox zero in this dedicated time allows me to see the overall pattern of emails.
#LifeHacks
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i dunno how to spell gorgeous (image ref under cut vvv)
#qsmp#qsmp fanart#zero art#slimecicle#qsmp slimecicle#qsmp mariana#el mariana#slimeriana#fliporiana#funny thing i put the correct spelling on there for funsies#alright time to get to the inbox hahahaha
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More on sub bully yandere pretty plz 🥺🙏
i'm gonna do gyu again just bc sub bully=beomgyu (kinda a part two to this)
afterwards he just gets meaner and meaner. for a multitude of reasons-
one being that you humiliated him in front of the entire school, and now he needs to get back at you,
and the other being that he's head over fucking heels in love with you now and has zero idea how to talk to a crush other than bullying them
so he continues to fight with you. threaten you, insult you, release compromising photos of you taken by his own hand (which he also uses on lonely pent up nights)
he's an asshole. who doesn't know when to quit.
you don't exactly make it easy for him though.
every time he's harassing you, you're there with a blank face, arms crossed. giving nothing away, and taking every ounce of satisfaction away from him. knowing entirely that if his group of friends weren't standing there backing him up you could do whatever you wanted to him-and he'd let you.
but you don't.
because unlike him, you pride yourself of being a decent human being.
that somehow just makes him angrier though. makes him try harder to piss you off.
spilling your food all over your clothing, laughing as he lets out an "oops, sorry, i didn't mean to." all while cackling with his friends.
egging your car and writing on it with spray paint, causing damage he knows you don't have the money to fix.
he wants you to be angry. he wants you to be so pissed at him, at everything he's done to you that you just can't hold it in anymore. he wants you to finally snap and grab him by the neck. kiss him until he's breathless and dumb (his very first kiss) and then fuck him to oblivion and back (his very first fuck).
beomgyu wants you to put him in his place, unlike so many other people in his life that don't care as he walks all over them.
and it only takes a single thing for you to snap.
him loudly talking to you in the middle of class, taunting the fact that you somehow got a lower mark than him. leaning across the isle to get up into your face, smirking his dumb smirk.
you simply ignore him, preferring not to add to the scene until the teacher zeroes in on the two of you, looking unimpressed as she sends the both of you to detention.
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"fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck! what the hell is wrong with you?"
nothing. he only smiles back sweetly.
"i have shit that i need to do, places i have to be! records that i need to keep! i don't need to spend my time in detention with your sorry ass!"
nothing.
"you're so annoying, you hear me?"
infuriating fucking prick. absolutely nothing.
"a fucking brat who doesn't know how to man up and be a normal person. instead you're acting like a pussy, too scared to ask me out hmm? a pathetic loser virgin."
something.
his cheeks are flushed red, his face so close your noses are practically touching, his hands gripping onto the desk.
"yeah, is that what you are? a brat and a pathetic loser virgin?"
your hands on either side of his shoulders against the chair, trapping him in place. he's painfully hard in the confines of his pants.
the room around is so quiet you could hear a pin drop. the teacher had left awhile ago, not that she was supposed to, she just did and told you guys to behave.
the detention class was completely silent now. just the sound of your heavy breathing, his shallow pants and his heart beating so fast it seems as if it's about to leap out of his chest.
"say it."
his mouth feels dry, his body feels hot.
"say that you're a pathetic loser virgin and then maybe i'll take care of that for you, okay?"
his eyebrows knot together as you press a hand against him, biting his lip to hold back a moan. "i-..."
you nod, prompting him to continue.
"i'm a...pathetic virgin loser!" his eyes squeeze shut as he breathes it out, whining lowly under his breath. "i'm sorry! all i wanted was your attention!"
when he opens his eyes again, you're smiling.
"okay then. you have my attention now." you sit back against your own chair again. "come here."
he begins to stand up. "on your knees, beomgyu." face burning in shame, dick throbbing with humiliation, he shuffles towards you on his hands and knees until he sits between your legs.
"good boy." he shivers. "now, if you wanna take care of that, you're going to have to get off on my leg."
he looks at you as if you've grown a second head, as if you're crazy. he searches your face for any sign that you might be joking. "go on you mutt."
#inbox💌#sorry this is kinda shit#i'm pretty braindead at the moment#and have zero inspiration to write rn#hard thoughts#dom reader#sub txt#txt smut#txt hard thoughts#beomgyu smut#beomgyu x reader#sub choi beomgyu#sub beomgyu#sub! txt#sub kpop#sub!kpop
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