Time, energy, attention. Really at the bottom of everything. The biggest reason why something gets done, or doesn’t.
Focus. Your magic beam of creativity, or death. Your world is either expanding or contracting. Depending on how you wield your light sabre of focus.
Productivity. For me, being productive is about optimizing processes and systems in my life & biz that help me maximize my TEA + FOCUS.
Let’s have TEA, shall we?
If you haven’t read Charlie Gilkey’s Unconventional Guide to Freelancing, well… you should.
Gmail. It’s the email system I use and recommend.
With so many good reasons… like its ability to receive email from other accounts from around the web (up to five). So you can see everything, in one email interface.
Gmail Labs offers users experimental features that aren’t quite ready for primetime. You should also be warned that an enabled Lab can change, break, or disappear at any time.
Here are 7 Gmail Labs I recommend enabling immediately after setting up your first Gmail account.
For your Inbox
Refresh POP accounts – Remember the idea about corralling your emails into one location that I mentioned above? This Lab will fetch messages from your POP accounts on demand by using the refresh link on top of the inbox.
Reverb10.com. An annual event and online initiative to reflect on your year and manifest what’s next. The end of the year is an opportunity to reflect on what’s happened, and to send out reverberations for the year ahead.
December 2 Writing. What do you do each day that doesn’t contribute to your writing — and can you eliminate it? (Author: Leo Babauta).
This is such a hot topic for me. Very excited when I read it this morning. Irony is, here I sit. Late evening. About to hit publish.
I drank up many great posts today, in and outside of #reverb10, wondering if/when I would have time to write my own installment and laughing, at myself and today’s prompt.
Attention Frequent Flyers!
Mercury has officially entered it’s regularly scheduled “out of phase” cycle of moondancing backwards in the sky (or at least it looks like that) otherwise known as Mercury Retrograde.
It’s time for re-doing everything and basically no initiating what-so-ever (consider yourself warned) nor barely a hint of forward movement on the irons in your campfire.
I dread Mercury retrograde the most for all its technical snafus and basic overall “STOPNESS” he hurls at my life during this three week period (April 18 thru May 11).
Communications of every kind are subject to general snarlification. Details details details. Watch them. Pay closer than usual attention to them. And watch your backend as unfinished ones will sneak up and bite!
Gmail helps me corral my email into one place so I (hopefully) never miss it when you send me something.
Last time I talked about email accounts, only it was all about using the free email account you got when/if you’re using Godaddy to purchase & manage your domain name (what’s that?).
Why I Love Gmail
There are many, many other things that make Gmail cool other than these two things I’m about to mention that make Gmail really cool for me.
Did you know that if you buy a domain with GoDaddy, you get one free email account with it?
Why is this important for you to know? Well, I hear a lot of requests from clients participants who have gotten their tech savvy on in one of my workshops. They say something like, “I’d really enjoy a more professional looking email address or one that matches my new website!” Example: trade in mynde_mayfield (at) yahoo (dot) com email for mynde (at) myndemayfield (dot) com.
So this post is all about getting your free GoDaddy email activated so that you can plug your new, professional looking email in everywhere on your web presence.
