Cleaning up

Spent the last hour at work yesterday cleaning up my email, filing a bunch of things that had been handled but where the email was still sitting in my inbox. It was nice to go from hundreds of 'unread' emails down to a dozen. The two big things I keep getting consistent 'you need to improve this' feedback on are a) getting the last step done; and b) tracking assignments. Both of those have a connection to email use, and I think I've set up the systems I need to track, and thus check in with team members to make sure things are going out the door.

Then I did the same with my email here at home this morning, deleting a couple dozen emails that were just hanging out with nothing to do. Felt good.

And that, interestingly enough, fed into this month's "Take This" challenge over on Habitica, which is about 'organizing your inventory'. I'm pretty sure I've said this before, but I really, really love the Habitica site. I'm a great believe in checklists, because I feel like they're an ounce of prevention in keeping things on track (I've been introducing a lot of checklists for my team at work). You don't have to scramble to think, 'hey, do I have everything I needed' if you have a list to check off, which you hopefully developed in a calmer period when you weren't stressed out about an assignment, or shopping, or whatever. I definitely credit it with keeping me going with things like flossing my teeth every night, getting through a multi-year backlog of comics (read at least one a day!), keeping the one plant we have in the house alive (scheduled watering), and keeping the cat's water dish from getting disgusting (weekly scrub out).

Sh*t you didn't know you needed

Today in shit you didn't know you needed, double hook shower curtain hooks. Because why have to disassemble the entire shower curtain just to replace the liner, or clean the shower curtain? The husband picked up a set of these and they're sooo much easier to deal with.