I Want to Be a Big Rock!

Well, Katherine and I signed up for HARO.  Hundreds of queries come in every day, in the form of three emails.

It’s interesting to see what subjects capture reporters’ attention.  Online dating is a big one; business and finance is a huge category…

I did “pitch” for one of the queries, but I doubt I’ll get picked up.  The query dealt with email inbox hell… asking if you are disorganized and overwhelmed by your email inbox, and how that affects your business…

I added a spin to it… where I manage my emails, so I’m not overwhelmed, but my writing partner has a “different” way of managing hers, and somehow my emails always get pushed to the bottom and forgotten…  never to be responded or addressed…

Now, some may say that I’m pretty dense.  Don’t I get it?  My partner is sending me a signal that she finds my emails annoying and unimportant… and rather not deal with them or me…

My emails?  Unimportant?  Never!!!  

Me? Unimportant? Never!!!

I did tell her how I feel when she doesn’t respond to my emails.  She explained that her email box is so cluttered all the time that she tries to deal with the unimportant junk mail first, to declutter the box… then when she gets to my emails, there’s just no time to read them… although she thinks they are very important.  Instead of responding to my emails, she simply files them in her AM file, to be answered later... but later never comes.

So, she deals with the unimportant junk mail and files the important matters away — unread, unanswered, and unaddressed. 

This reminds me of the Stephen Covey exercise… Do the Big Rocks First.  The idea is that everyone has the same amount of hours in a day, week, month, etc.  This limited resource — your time — is represented by a bucket.  Within your time limitations, you have all these things you have to take care of — which are represented by rocks of various sizes.  The trick is how to fit all of the rocks into the bucket.

See what happens….Do The Big Rocks First!

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