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@Wendy – yes that is a neat bookshelf – flickr creative commons is great

@Anton – i’m with you, it’s totally a way of life

@Eric – that’s a great statement, i may have to reuse that quote (and reference you, of course!)

@Tim – wonderful analogy, that puts it into good perspective

@Ed – the idea pad is the perfect place for good creative clutter to manifest

@Thom – as long as you are organized, it doesn’t matter if others see you as disorganized

I have recently discovered that I have too much going on. I have nearly 1000 emails in the combined 3 email accounts. Much of those are things I don’t really know what to do with. They are not unimportant, but so much less important than the rest of the things I have to do that they just sit.

My answer is I am going to delete all emails older than one month. I figure if it is necessary the sender will contact me.

As for all the other stuff in my life. I am enjoying the creative buzz that I will now hang around my crap.

:)

thom

I’ll then find time once a month to transfer these to Remember the Milk and start actioning them into little tasks – and tag them up as ideas. I have loads of short tasks down as ideas and I just find time in my workload to spend a bit of time on some of them and start forming them into something more concrete. My work has been really supportive of this as I’ve come up with some useful stuff (and very leftfield) that other staff and managers just aren’t thinking about!

It’s fun looking back awhile later at the random stuff you made or thought of or wrote. Creative clutter is one of the best ways to keep the creative juices flowing.