Productivity | Bryan McGee: Carpe Diem Coram Deo

Apr 10, 2008

An amazing day already

Here is what has happened so far today.

Our new 10 bay CD duplicator and full color CD printer arrived. Our media center is about to go to a whole new level.
We made the decision to initiate some major systems changes. Over the next 3 months, we are going to see some significant improvements in how we support our ministries and interact with our church family.
We had an amazing lunch with Jeff, Daryl, Tiffany, Drew, Brad and Dave from Lifepoint. I love what God is doing through their church. It was cool to see our teams interacting together.
This comes on the heels of Carolyn and I having coffee yesterday with Mike from PC3. PC3 has on 10-11 more services until they move into their new building. That’s awesome.
I made arrangements to do some promotion for a very big announcement coming soon. God is doing something huge at The ROCK. Not in the future. He’s doing it right now.
Matthew helped Jen out today on the murals going in down the hall. A big part of the hallway is now blue. It’s exciting. WOOOHOO!
Connecting with someone later today about some big vision things. If you cannot sense the intensity, your spidey sense is a little off.
During lunch today, Jeff spoke to our staff (I didn’t give him any forewarning) and it was powerful and right on time for us. I love getting around guys that have big vision and are idiots for God. Thanks for hanging out with us today.
I gotta get back to work. I can’t play Halo all day like some churches… Hey, somebody just shot me with a rubber band.

Today, my computer decided it had enough of me and my over-abundance of files. During our creative meeting a message popped up telling me I was at a life-threatening, dangerously low level of available hard drive space.

WHAT?!?!?!

I have a 100GB hard drive. This is not possible. When I looked, it said I had 0 available megabytes of space. You read that right… 0.

Then I looked at the My Documents folder. There were a lot of files there but nowhere near enough to shut my computer down. My computer was gasping for air and I had to do something fast…

Finally, I found the culprit. I keep a folder on my desktop called, interestingly enough, Desktop Poo. It is not a shortcut to a network drive. It is just a dumping ground to keep my desktop uncluttered. Like this…

But my Desktop Poo folder looked like this…

That’s right. 15,518 files of what? Junk. That’s what.

So, I dumped them to an external drive, emptied the folder and made up with my computer.

Now, if I could just unclutter my mind the same way… There’s a sermon in there. I just know it.

Inbox Zero

Tonight, I decided to clear my inbox while Noah and Adam were at football practice. At 6:00pm, my inbox showed 990 emails. By the end of Adam’s practice at 7:30p, I saw something I have not seen in a long, long time.

Inbox Zero