It’s Blogvent, day 18, where I blog daily in December!

This week was so busy that my brain has just slowed to a halt. Tons of work, babies not cooperating, travel, pre-holiday jitters, family moving… it’s been a lot.

When I’m particularly stressed and feeling overwhelmed, I just want to clean. I want to organize things to have some semblance of control in my environment.

What’s been hard lately though is that between all the cleaning in real life and dealing with fires at work… my inbox is truly just a black hole where emails go to die. I haven’t hit inbox zero in over a year (I know because I track it, doesn’t everyone???). It feels like this gigantic mountain that I have to climb and my eye twitches just thinking about it.

I’m sure there’s some newfangled AI tool or something that could help me get through it, but… I just don’t trust those kinds of tools yet. Maybe I should.

So, in writing this, I’m saying:

• If you’re waiting on an email from me, I’m sorry
• Is this what assistants are for?
• We don’t need to be in control of everything! I say this but need to believe it!
• Future Cassidy, if you read this, stop procrastinating and go clear your inbox
• I should probably stop procrastinating with writing this blog and go clear my inbox