Welcome to Day 1. Heh heh heh.
Wootness challenge – take a photo of your office. Right now, Before you do anything in the 61-derful challenge. Don’t move a thing. Take a few different angles. Hold onto them for safekeeping. 😉 Seriously. You’ll be utilizing these later.
MAIL CALL!
OK – here’s the deal. There’s crap all over your desk and some of it is time-sensitive. As in, it should have been mailed last week. Find every single mailable item that should be mailed, shipped or delivered in some manner and put it in a pile. Take each item individually and put it in an envelope and add postage. I’m just talking about things that are danged near ready to go out. Things you can grab and take to the post office.
If you have to print out invoices and find boxes and crap like that – forget it for now. I just want you to grab the stuff that you can take care of in less than 5 minutes.
Load it all in your car and drive down to the post office and take care of it. While you are there, grab some Priority mail envelopes and purchase a few priority mail stamps to take care of future emergencies. Running through the postal drive through in the alley sure beats standing in a line of 13 people inside.
EMAIL MANIA!
After you’ve done that go through your email inbox and delete every email that is not from a client or a peer or contains a digital receipt. You may even want to take the drastic step of unsubscribing to an email list. In fact, yes, that’s a good idea. Right now, pick 5 emails to unsubscribe from. Come on – I’m not asking for your first born child. You regularly delete a lot of these emails without looking at them anyway, so do the prudent thing and unsubscribe. If you’re that interested in what’s going on, you can always travel over to their WWW site and take a look.
WORK ON BACKLOG
OK, let’s be honest, in all those leaning tower of craps on your desk is legitimate work that needs done. Starting now, devote 1/2 of your working day to clearing out your backlog. I don’t care if it’s retouching or placing orders or designing wedding albums. Just do it. Do the oldest job first and work your way down through the list until you’re caught up. Please tell me you have a list. If you don’t, lie. I’ve had a long day.
- Mailed 2 very important items.
- Wrote 7 advance articles for wootness.net
- Cleared ~300 emails out of inbox
- Portrait session & viewing session & sneak peek to client.