The Client Letter
June 28, 2012
Sedona, Arizona
Sunny 88 degrees
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“It contains all of the lessons Gary Halbert tried to teach me in our year and a half together from his 30 years experience of working with clients.” – Dan Gallapoo (about How to Get Kick As* Clients)
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I made it. Only 15 minutes left until 10 o’clock and I haven’t checked my email yet today.
I like this. And the feeling it creates is really awesome. There’s a sense of calm to things that I’ve been missing for a while.
And the feeling of calm is there even though I have tons of work to do… plenty of looming deadlines… and a long list of projects to work on.
Could NOT checking your email first thing in the day really create all of this goodness? It seems so.
Here’s the problem with email.
It’s ALWAYS there. Which means you have a quick and reliable way to fill up any and every spare moment of your day with something.
This is a problem.
And today is my first taste in a while of a much better way to go about things.
So what did I do instead of checking my email this morning? How did my behavior change now that I’ve decided not to begin my day responding to the needs and wants of others?
Well, I started off with coffee. Then I helped my kids make breakfast. Then I took a walk with my daughter and two of our dogs.
It’s no great achievement to be busy. Anybody can do that.
It reminds me of Thoreau’s quote:
“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.”
This morning I left email alone.
This morning I was rich beyond measure.