How I Use Gmail to Organize my Electronic Missives

January 9, 2012

From inception and through growing adoption over the past decade, email has been lauded and defined as a means to reduce clutter and headache, so much so, it has devolved into an experience, a nuisance really, reminiscent of what it was supposed to replace, or reduce tremendously, at least: physical letters and packages. Spam is annoying. Google, seven years ago with the beta release of Gmail, looked to curtail our issues with too much information… Read more of: How I Use Gmail to Organize my Electronic Missives

essential ingredients to breaking and forming habits

January 8, 2011

We all have habits. Some good. Some not so good. Some downright terrible. It’s an accepted rule that habits take 21 consecutive days (three weeks) to form—or to break. Knowledge is power, so they say, so let’s use that power to make or break some habits. To begin, it’s best to take a few minutes to think about habits we have—all of them. The good and the bad should be acknowledged. Now, write them down.… Read more of: essential ingredients to breaking and forming habits