Deadlines!

so it's 11:15pm...   and if I'm going to post today, I have to do it soon.... 

So why do I set myself up with this deadline?  hmmm   does it matter, if it's my own internal deadline?   It's not like anyone out there is REQUIRING that I write something...

Or does it matter more???  

Aren't my own ideas and plans at least as important as those imposed on me?

Who decides what's important, anyway...

I've realized, I normally move all of my "InBox" into a separate folder each year, "InBox 2009", for example...   but I don't think I did that in 2011, to move off 2010.  And now there's another year's worth there!!!   I *do* delete occasionally, but I do keep a lot in my email archives- fun to search through.   I also keep pretty much EVERYemail that I've ever sent - but again, USUALLY separated into yearly folders.   I think it's time to do that again.  I do love the feeling of a fresh, new InBox.   Of course, that may  be why I have SEVERAL separate "IN" boxes, and filters that fill them...

-Coupons -- this InBox gets all of my deals, etc...  they automatically go in there, and then when I'm in the mood to scan through, I can do so.   Or, I can just delete - since anything not used within a few days becomes old, obsolete, useless.  

-MyInbox -- this InBox gets anything that my email program recognizes the Sender from.   This is my "real" email, and where most of what you send me goes to.

-LindaSub -- this is where anything to lindasub @ my email address goes -- any newsletters I subscribe to, etc...   again, for leisure reading, or pretty much simple deleting. 

-Facebook - another easy-to-clear folder, it gets all those notifications from Facebook.   I can sometimes just scan through this folder and know what folks are up to, without getting sucked into Facebook!

- InBox -- where all of the un-sorted email goes.

There are few others, for specific tasks.   but that's my secret to keeping up to email...   I love filters.  they help me to sort out the important, from the less important, to the unimportant.

And isn't that one of the most critical tasks -- deciding what is important, so that it can be taken care of, and what is not important, so that it will not distract ???  

So, is this blog important?  Yes.  Why?  I think that is a question for another day.