Wrapping things up

Welcome to 2017!

I’ve spent the last couple days dreaming what I want 2017 to look like and doing some planning. No surprise there though 🙂

Today I had planned on wrapping up that planning, but instead found myself wrapping up a different project. I completed my last promotional task for ICF Chicago. I’m grateful for the time I spent volunteering with ICFC, but it also feels good to be done.

From there I dove into my email. Gmail manages my email and I let it sort it into the 4 categories it gives you. All newsletters end up in one category and in a week I can easily accumulate over 100 emails there.

I generally skim through for the emails I want to read now and save the rest for later.

I realized that there were a number of emails that I haven’t read in a while. Looking over them I realized a majority are from people that I personally LOVE, but I’m not actually interested in their business content. I’m more interested in their lives and personal Facebook posts.

I must have unsubscribed from about a dozen lists today after having that realization.

There is a theme here, you might have noticed it—it’s wrapping things up and letting things go.

I’ve let go of a few things in the last couple of weeks. They include:

• Volunteer positions
• Email subscriptions
• An old hurt that was holding me back
• Christmas traditions that no longer are helpful
• Clutter in my Facebook feed
• My old newsletter format (I loved the simplicity of this format so much last week that I’m keeping it!)