Just can’t believe it’s butter, I stutter when I say it, I don’t know the way, You want to play it, Okay it’s up in the air, But I am not that crazy, I couldn’t get out of bed today, Mostly because I am lazy.
This prompt hits the soul, the biggest risk would be to pure my heart out to someone, and ask them to love me unconditionally. I want this one person to just trust in you, even though you haven’t known each other long, that I got them, and I just want them to have me.
Well yup, the numbers sound just about right, Happy 16th Year Blog Anniversary. The Jixi Fox blog was born in October 2007, just a few months before my debut music/poetry album independently made Kreative Expressions. In these beginning years, it was a proud moment and the internet was evolving. So many services to choose from but I choose code, “Code is Poetry” for I write poetry and life in my words. I wrote deep and short pieces that related with others and help build this strong community we have now on WordPress.
From the (4) WordPress Word Camps I have attended & hosted and more to come, I knew my writing career and expressive creative writing was here to stay. From the depths of college years back then when no really knew what blogging and seo was, I was there, guiding, commenting, promoting, laughing and enjoying words of others.
As much as this is a celebration for me, for I will honor every year, it’s a celebration to all the writers, bloggers, creatives, to keep pushing. Keep creating and connecting.
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY
I started to celebrate a lot more of me these special moments and milestones starting 2021. I was always told, I just kept going and never take a time to look back and see where I have come from.
Thanks to anyone who ever viewed, dropped a like or just a kind friend who came over to my home. #community.
Where ever they float,
I want to be there to catch them,
Experience their lives and passions,
Hope and faith that creates lives,
I want to give life to those, never see them die,
Purity and honesty okay let’s pave a way,
Our dreams carry us through to see another day,
If I see another dream floating away,
I hope is comes floating towards me,
My way.
Okay, so the mission was simple. Eliminate emails ASAP from a cluttered inbox. Task Level: moderate, based on the type of music and hyper focus level you are in at the moment. I clearly understood the mission, after have a productivity training session at the gym, (aka working out). I always laugh at the fact you can always tell a better story based on the words you use and add a lot more details to drag a story to create an unique experience to the reader. Having said all that, short form, I went to the gym, fell good, was super hype, came home and figured I would delete a bunch of emails.
A BIT OF BACK STORY
Gmail is my preferred email service of choose. It has it’s pros and cons, but I have always loved google, since it came out. Now my inbox has always been full, except for my work emails, they stay on “0”. Everything is read and sorted, I dislike seeing the numbers of unread emails in a inbox. I pay attention to details and label them based on importance. Oh yea by the way, if you live in an area of lot of population, trust me when I tell you, there are many people out there, that will pay you just to manage and organize their inbox. I have done it, and it’s good way to network and help other especially busy people, parents, business owners and creators. If you pursue this, thank me later. 🙂
THE MISSION
I have an inbox, I overly abuse. I am not abusive, but this email inbox, gets stuffed. So I have to break it all done in two numbers on the goal/mission.
Start of the Process ALL MAIL = 112,000 Emails. (Yep, the number is correct, your eyes are not deceiving you). UNREAD MAIL = 59,000 Emails. (Also no lie there.)
The Goal was to get to 50,000 unread emails in 20 minutes. That was coming from 59,000 unread emails.
THE PROCESS
Gmail is a tricky little sucker, so just know they way they sort your mail is weird. Promotions & Social Tabs act as almost different entities. So deleting a promotion email, in which most people email has is filled up with, trust me I know.
So here is the laziness part of it all, I am not going to full explain the process, but the quick answer is…click on the icon at the end of search mail on top of your browser, then choose words and email addresses you are getting mass emails from. Hit Search, and select all, review, and also hit, “select all conversations that match this search”, and click delete. Then start watching those emails GO GO GO AWAY.
THE RESULTS
ALL MAIL: 74,804 Emails UNREAD MAIL: 39,900
I am so happy for these results. I had got to 49,000, but I wanted more and more, so I went for 30 minutes instead of 20, and bingo. I feel like I won a championship. 🙂
This post wasn’t going. tobe a post for today, but I was so inspired to let others into my world, so I spent 30 minutes deleting emails and 30 minutes writing the post to share with you. Another productivity hour of my life. Weeee.
TRICKS & HELPFUL TIPS
Always go to your spam, sort and delete. Look for reoccuring places they are coming from and add to the block list.
Always go to your TRASH, and clear it. For all emails you delete is not deleted until you go to trash and delete your trash. This similar to using your Windows & Mac computers as well as you iPhone (deleted photos), trust me, they are still there. So go and look. Thank me later.