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On my to do list6/23/2023 On paper, he certainly looked successful. Seriously tho – wiping it out, letting the important things come back, and only putting the important things back in my looking at you next email… /PHkpILLOCQĪccording to his LinkedIn profile, Rick Galan has been the Head of Digital Marketing at Qualtrics – an experience research and analytics software company headquartered in Utah and Seattle – for the last 3 years and 7 months. ![]() ![]() Everything is gone! I'm starting from scratch! ![]() This week I have declared to-do-list bankrupcy. A month ago, the universe sent me a sign in the form of a tweet from a Todoist user who had actually gone through with it. Turns out I’m not the only one with the idea. I could enjoy a clean slate and keep my job too. “You mean, I could just delete my emails? All of them? Without having responded to them?” It got me thinking that if fancy Washington Post editors can do it with their emails, why can’t I do it with my tasks? Just delete them. (Yes the concept has been around for over a decade now, I’m just very late to the party.) The thought of declaring email bankruptcy made me feel giddy, subversive, and more than a little anxious all at the same time. But around the start of the new year, I came across an idea that was, at least for me, revolutionary: email bankruptcy. I assumed that quitting daydreams were a normal and inevitable part of modern-day work. Saying them would be so much easier than facing down the 30 or so overdue tasks I usually have hanging around. ![]() All it would take is two little words, two tiny syllables, five measly letters. I have zero intention of actually quitting.īut that doesn’t stop me from occasionally getting lost in the sweetest of daydreams in which all my unanswered emails, unfinished projects, and uncompleted tasks vanish from both my to-do list and my conscience in one fell swoop. For the record (and the benefit of my boss who is probably reading this), I love my job. Sometimes I fantasize about quitting my job.
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