Dear Sarah,
I was on vacation last week. I brought my laptop so I could
stay on top of my e-mail, the volume of which tends to get
out of hand in a few days. Before we went I asked the hotel
where we stayed to give me a room that could handle an Internet
connection. They did. But my computer mysteriously "lost"
something it needed to make contact with my ISP. Arrrggghhh.
I was so furious. And doubly furious to be *furious* on
my VACATION!! Any advice for what to do next time? —amy
Dear Amy,
Next time, leave the laptop behind. Or, if you must bring
it, quit trying after 10 minutes. On second thought, make
that five minutes. It's just not worth the aggravation!
Your vacation time deserves to be relaxing and wonderful—not
frustrating. And your fellow vacationers—friends, family,
hubby, lover—deserve a chilled-out Amy.
Your
note reminds me of my dear friend Claudia, a former colleague.
We worked together at a really crazy, pressured Web start-up
company. Claudia was a southern belle, and after she got
engaged she dove into planning a fabulous, elaborate wedding.
Caviar, doves, butterflies, scads of bridesmaids: the whole
Magilla.
Claudia and her husband went away on a three-week honeymoon to the Far East.
The morning she came back, she came into my office looking
absolutely radiant. I asked her if it was the natural glow
of the new bride. She replied that what made her so happy
was not just her new marital status. She told me she'd opened
her e-mail 15 minutes earlier and found MORE THAN 2000 e-mails
sitting there unopened. She began struggling through the
mass. And then a really cool idea popped into her head,
and, she did it: she selected all the e-mail messages, and
then—exhale—she pressed "DELETE"! And presto!
Clean slate! I swear, she was lighter than air.
Moral: Remember, people got along for thousands
of years without e-mail. So if you feel like you're overwhelmed,
go ahead, have a rebellion. Take these two simple steps:
Select all, and Delete.
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