@online 06.10.13

Okay, I know "@online" isn't as grammatically correct, but I just wanted to keep the theme.

Lesson learned: Never not check your emails for three months.
Just like a garden, without constant weeding and pruning, it'd be a jungle when you finally get to it.
And gosh does the state of my online mailbox feel like one now.

Even though I'm a woman, I've somehow never been one to be too good at multi-tasking. Having been away from home for a few months for some studies, and simply not being very good at mixing studies away and work and personal mails from home, meant that taking care of work and more home-based email whilst I was studying was pretty much impossible for me as I focused on my studies in the States. Unfortunately, what that did was accumulate literally thousands of emails spread over four (two personal and two work) email accounts. As so:

The personal email, though this was only one mailbox.
The other one has about 1000 mails.

The Yahoo Work Account

My direct personal work email was by far the worst. 1398!!!

Almost 3700 mails to sort through... though it's nothing that my trusty FAAD method can't work out and keep procrastination at bay, but it's still a feat. I'm guessing getting through this mess is going to take me about two solid non-procrastinating days...unless some replies take longer to process. I can't wait to get through to the end of the tunnel though! (I'm also already thinking how I shall reward myself when I get through all of them.)

I used to think that keeping my Inbox for each account to below 50 was acceptable, but I think that I'm going to challenge myself this time. I'm going to work with the target of having a maximum of 7 mails per inbox (which would mean a maximum of 28 pending mails in my life at any moment of time).

Why 7? I just like the number. (It's also a lot less daunting than 10 which could add up to a lot more when you have more mailboxes.)

Wish me luck!

@office 04.10.13

What a difference a few hours can make...

I've got to get through that load of paperwork,
but at least it's all in one place for me to tackle now. :)

My walls in my office are pretty bare and I realized that I would like to make it a more creative and conducive place to enjoy what I do. Perhaps it's time that I venture a little into more than decluttering and consider doing some decorating too. :)

I'm in the process of decluttering and organizing the main office too! There's much to do!

The main office looks like a jungle now,
but you cannot imagine how excited I am to conquer this!

@home 28.09.13

Just got back from a few months in the States and the first thing I did was clean (considering how my sisters (aka "The Messies") kinda trashed the place up. Here are some pics.

Not quite done yet, but I'll be sorting the nitty grits out over the weekend. At least the general bits are settled. The room feels so much lighter now. Gotta get the sisters to promise to work with me to straighten to room out (or at least their own stuff out). But it looks like another two rounds of decluttering, and we should be in much better (happier) shape.

It's amazing how people can really trash up your space so quickly. Returning back to work this Tuesday was a big shock for me. I left my office open for use whilst I was away, but what I came back to was not what I expected. I mean...look at the place!

And it's worse outside in the main area! Cleaning out my office will be my priority for the week. It's going to be a feat because of all the paperwork I will have to go through in the main office - I literally have boxes stuffed with random mixed paperwork that I found from when we sped-packed up for renovations - but I'm just going to utilize my trusty FAAD (Forward (to appropriate person to Act on it), Act, Archive, or Delete) method and hopefully I'll get through the paperwork jungle to a cleaner, brighter, decluttered happier workplace.

Can't wait for the before and after photos!