Do you let your day and workflow be dictated by your email inbox, post and telephone calls?\u00a0I have a long list of stuff to do from updating my showreel and doing a voice reel to reconnecting with those I met at Cannes and the sheer weight of what to do is oppressive. \u00a0I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I have to remind myself of that each morning as I do that freelance creative thing of getting up and having to structure my own days when I am not on set actually ‘working’
\nI do know that I cannot let my seriously bloated inbox be the master or mistress of my life. I have checked my main professional email account daily but it’s all the old email addresses that need clearing out. In times past that would have been my first priority but I no longer allow my inbox to dictate my work flow. I decide on my priorities and then go from there, if I don’t get to my inbox for another week it is fine. If anything is urgent someone will call me I am sure.
\nNelson Mandela had the following words of the great poem Invictus in his cell \u00a0Full poem and details here<\/a><\/p>\n
\nI loosely do the GTD system, Getting Things Done by David Allen, and it is through implementing that system that I finally got my inbox down to zero! However the weekly GTD refresh is where I fall by the wayside, it is where you stop everything to re look at what is outstanding in all areas of your life.
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