Jan 28 Fri (12 PM)

I'm slowly catching up with stuff. I've got these little bundles of files, folders, e-mails and papers that I'm constantly digging through. My home e-mail is down to 25 mails in my inbox (some of them quite old, but getting there), then there's the inbox at work, currently at 13 mails. Then I have my 'files pile', stacks of icons on the left side of my screen at home and at work. This has documents to read, to write and to file away properly. On Wednesday I made some progress on that front at home. It's down to 5 or 6 icons. At work I'm holding steady at 6.

Then there's the paper piles. The actual physical manifestation of Things I Have To Do. That's the part I'm least proud of. Christmas and Birthday cards to respond to, plus Tax information, pay stubs, receipts, warranties, magazines. This is the goal: Clean out all the piles before they overwhelm you.

But when I do, I hate it when the slightest, smallest thing gets put into my mail, in my icon stack or my paper stack. So I'm left trying to keep just enough in there that when something gets added it doesn't depress me, but taking care of enough things that the pile is small enough that I think I can handle it.

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