After my hiatus on everything healthy and a 9 day break from work I am back to the office today. Really looking forward to all those “unread” emails and flashing messages on the phone. Luckily I put up an “Out of Office” message so the emails won’t be too enormous but I am sure there will be enough to keep me busy for a couple of hours - maybe the whole day.
There are plenty of ways to deal with an overstuffed email inbox, the best I have come across are:
- 43 Folders - Merlin Mann’s site that I have been quietly following foe a few years now.
- David Allens’ Getting Things Done - I emailed David years ago when (to me) he was just starting. I didn’t realise he was the Productivity Guru!
- Priority Management’s Working Smart with Outlook
I’ll probably go with David Allen’s today as he has a great work flow model which is really easy to follow and gets things moving quite well.
Yesterday I re-started my exercise focus with a leisurely 5km run/walk. It’s amazing how unfit one can get within a month of less focused effort. The 5km took me 32 minutes with a “walk a song - run a song” tempo through my Nokia N95. (Great phone by the way!)
Exercise (and a plan!)
Today is a rest day and tomorrow is a 5.5 km run. I read somewhere that you should increase your run distance by no more than 10% each time. Knowing better than any professional I ran whatever I felt like and, maybe, my last month’s inactivity is a result of not taking good advice. I have just felt very flat.
So I’ve now written down a plan for the next 3 weeks that allows me a rest day every other day and a 10% increase in distance each day I do run. It’s quite interesting how quickly you can increase you distance through such a simple method - by Day 21 I will be running 12 km.
I’ve also included the Push Ups as well so I hope to be doing 3 sets of 30 by that time too. It’s not quite Steve Speirs’ program but I am still aiming to get to the 100 eventually.
Well, I’ve deferred long enough, time to get ready for work.
Have a great day.
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