Hoarding Emails (and Letting Go)

I was getting tired of seeing 5,600+ unread mail in my mailbox. What’s funny is I am also being bombarded with emails that say I should simplify my life.

So I did.

But it is harder than I thought.

As of press time, I still have 3,089 unread emails. And it is growing by 50 a day.

I am confounded as to why my unread emails became that much. I am usually overly zealous at reading what’s up in my world and everyone else’s. Looking at my 2008 emails (Gmail has allowed me to keep them), I saw that I had read each and every one. I do not know what happened between then and now.

Maybe it’s just that I am a sucker for enlisting for products and services. In early 2009, I was so big on personal finance and internet marketing that I had signed up for those websites and people my mentors recommended – Schefren, Daily Wealth, Daily Crux, Morningstar, Napoleon Hill, Bob Proctor, League of Extraordinary Minds, Carl Ocab and many more other websites. I seriously think this is the time when my emails ballooned to unimaginable and my life went from simple to crazy-exciting.

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How to Spark Inspiration

Let us face it. It is not everyday that we see the world with rose-colored glasses. It is monotony that that kisses our faces day in and day out, like waves that do not fail to come to the shore; it is the humdrum of everyday life that besets us and pummels us into submission; the unexciting coming more often rather than the exciting. And yes, there is some comfort in that. The heart can only take so much – of happiness, of excitement, of something happening all the time.

But when you need to, how do you inspire yourself?

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iPhone: Guilty Pleasure

I will confess to one guilty pleasure. But first, the background. I have been using a Treo 650 cellphone for as long as I can remember – okay, I used it for 4 long years.  Our story started when I saw it in the hands of my brother and fell in love with it.  I [...]

On Showing Up and Not Letting Life Pass You By

These writers different ways of pushing themselves but whatever they think may be the outcome of their efforts, they show up. And it is as if the showing up in itself sets into motion the things and events that happen in their life, that putting their feet out into their chosen path urged them to complete what it is they set out to do.

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