Why inbox zero isn’t always the best solution
Do your emails overwhelm you at work?
If so, you aren’t alone. In fact, the good chunk of our office time consists of sorting through emails. According to a study from the McKinsey Global Institute, people spend on average over one-fourth of their time dealing with just their emails alone.
To make matters worse, the study also found that it will take you approximately 90 seconds to return back to the work you were doing before the email interrupting your workflow. Combined, that is a lot of time lost solely to sifting through emails.
The concept of “inbox zero” came about in 2007 to help manage the stress of sorting through work emails. The idea is to keep the inbox near empty – or close to empty – at all times through a series of steps in which you process all of your emails throughout the day to achieve an empty inbox by the end of the day.
While there are many who still follow this approach, some find it to actually be useless.
In an article for Entrpreneur.com, behavioral psychologist Dan Ariely refers to the concept as “structured procrastination”; while it may make you feel like you are achieving something, it ultimately doesn’t do anything.
Although the appeal of having a clean, empty inbox is ideal for many, the concept of inbox zero is somewhat unrealistic. There will always be emails to answer. There are emails that just be saved for future reference. And truthfully, spending your time trying to decipher where to categorize what email to achieve the empty inbox look is extremely time-consuming and tiresome.
So then, what can you do if you want to reduce the stress of emails in your work life?
There are a few ways you can mentally train yourself to stop seeing an overflowing inbox as something “bad.” Rather, it should be viewed as a process, one that will continuously happen every week. Instead of aiming to keep the inbox constantly empty, we should learn to learn how manage it more efficiently.
Prioritize emails by importance or urgency
One of the most important steps is to prioritize which emails require immediate attention and which can wait. Just as you prioritize your work tasks, do the same for your email.
If it isn’t urgent and can wait, then leave it unread or categorize it into another folder. If you can visually see which emails you must answer versus the ones that aren’t as much of a pressingmatter, you will feel less overwhelmed and can return to those emails.
Carve out a chunk of your day to respond
It is important to set aside a time in the day to return to all of the emails you left unanswered. Carving out a scheduled block of time will put you at ease throughout the day knowing that you will get to the emails. Choose what time of day works best for you and commit to it. It may also be helpful to have multiple times throughout the day to do this.
Don’t revisit emails – answer them!
Another tactic is to not have to keep revisiting emails. Often, we open a message and don’t feel like immediately answering it. As a result, it sits there, opened and forgotten. Decide to commit to replying right away to the unanswered message. This way, you don’t have to revisit it later. If you know you can reply right away, it will benefit you later on and will prevent a long list of opened but unanswered emails.
Save the important emails
I don’t know about you, but my work inbox has emails from over a year ago still in it. They contain important information regarding company guidelines, workflow procedures and even the company holiday schedule. There are times where there are pertinent details that just can’t be tossed away, no matter how badly one wants to achieve inbox zero.
Organizing these emails into folders or categories can help manage the clutter and separate the news emails from the old. There are ways to keep what matters to you without having to delete everything in yourfolder.
The idea of inbox zero may seem wonderful, but the reality is that we just don’t have time for it. Constantly keeping your inbox empty is a near-impossible task; one that would require more time than it is actually worth. Yes, it will look aesthetically pleasing, but it actually achieves nothing.
Luckily, there are other ways to manage your inbox to create a less cluttered, more organized feel. Instead of trying to reach inbox zero, go for a more realistic tactic. Managing your time and organizing your content is a more constructive approach that will lead you to an email anxiety-free life.
Solved! Destiny 2 Bastion Secret Quest - Guide For The Corridors Of Time
Every now and then, something major happens in Destiny 2: Bungie slips in a giant secret to the game that's usually tied to a big reward or a story event. The latest was a quest called "Explore the Corridors of Time" that includes an intricate puzzle that brought the entire Destiny 2 community together. Finally, it has been solved, which unlocked the Kinetic fusion rifle Bastion--and a new way for Destiny 2 to tell its story.
If you've been dreading trying to pass through the maze that is the Corridors of Time, good news: You can now just grab the Bastion quest from Saint-14 in the Tower, provided you've completed his storyline quests, which include An Impossible Task and Recovering the Past. Check out our complete Bastion guide to get your new Exotic weapon as quickly as possible. If you need Exotics without the work, you can visit Xur, who's back in the solar system and is offering Monte Carlo, a new Exotic from the Shadowkeep expansion that was previously only available from random drops.
If you want to unlock the lore, story dialogue, and secret emblem from the Corridors, make sure you get it soon. The Corridors of Time will collapse and stop being available with the weekly reset on Tuesday, January 28.
Editor's Note: This post previously repeated Pathway 3 as Pathway 12. We've corrected the error with the correct version of Pathway 12.
The quest returns you to the Corridors of Time, that weird interdimensional gateway used by the Vex and which is linked to Osiris's Sundial on Mercury. We last ventured through the Corridors of Time to find and save Saint-14 earlier in the season. Now that that's accomplished, Osiris wants you to head back into the Corridors and explore them to figure out what their deal is.
To start the quest, head to Osiris on Mercury and talk to him. Claim the "Exploring the Corridors of Time" quest from him, then activate the Sundial to transport yourself back to the strange realm. After that, it's a matter of figuring out the path; the Corridors are a series of doorways that link to big rooms full of Vex, and each of the doorways is marked with a sign. Community members on Destiny's r/raidsecrets subreddit have worked together to determine which paths are required to navigate the Corridors and avoid getting lost.
Corridors Of Time Solution
As it turned out, each pass through the Corridors of Time produced a code, which the Destiny 2 community determined created a map of the Corridors. Piecing together the map provided a new pathway through the Corridors, which ultimately completes this step of the "Exploring the Corridors of Time" mission. Note that if you want to unlock all the lore and the secret emblem hidden in the Corridors of Time, you should do those steps first, before completing the quest by entering this solution.
Here's the sequence to complete the Corridors of Time:
Finishing the quest leaves you with a bit of story dialogue and reveals who that tomb you've been seeing in the Timelost Vault actually belongs to. The quest also gets you set up to complete the quest to earn Bastion, the season's next Exotic weapon.
The Pigeon and the Phoenix Lore Book Codes 
The codes denoting your pathway through the Corridors of Time appear on the obelisks. Read them starting with the top-right corner and going clockwise, with the final symbol being the one in the middle.
Discovering the final solution to the Corridors of Time was a pretty huge undertaking. The first step in the puzzle was to work through 19 different pathways through the maze, with the Corridors dishing out lore drops as you complete each one in the new "The Pigeon and the Phoenix" lore book. The codes for each pathway appeared each hour on the Sundial obelisks scattered around the solar system. The paths lead you to a place called the Timelost Vault, and activating an object there (marked, ominously, with "???") reveals a bunch of symbols on the floor below.
Looking down through the glass floor of the Timelost Vault reveals these hexagonal codes. By finding codes with patterns on the edges that correspond, the Destiny 2 community managed to create a map that provides a new path through the Corridors of Time.
Each of the 19 codes reveals a portion of a larger map that the community reconstructed--and following that map earns you a secret emblem. In the meantime, to get all 19 pieces of the lore book, you'll need to access the Timelost Vault through all 19 pathways. The pathway to unlock the emblem is located below.
Once you reach the Vault and activate it, you can keep walking forward to get teleported back to the beginning of the Corridors. Approach the blank sign to the left of the first door to reset the Corridors so you can start the next pathway.
Pathway 1:
There's also a special emblem that the Destiny 2 community discovered hidden in the Timelost Vault: the Savior of the Past emblem. That code was discovered by piecing together various players' images from the floor of the Timelost Vault every time they entered it with a new code, and stitching those pieces together revealed a new code that led to the emblem. It requires a slightly more involved pathway to unlock. Here's how to reach it.
Savior of the Past Emblem Code
While the 19 pathways gleaned from obelisks earn you the lore book allowed the community to build the map to the emblem, that wasn't enough to finish the quest and solve the mystery of the Corridors of Time. The community used the codes found in the emblem Timelost Vault to construct the Corridors of Time map, using the images revealed beneath the floor of the Timelost Vault. Building the map took days, but it's finally been solved.
Visit Saint-14
Once you enter the final code for the Corridors of Time, you'll be sent back to Saint-14 for the next step. Talk to him and he'll send you to the Tangled Shore to kill Fallen enemies. Make sure you complete the Corridors of Time on a character with which you've also finished the other Saint-14 quests in order to progress the "Exploring the Corridors of Time" quest. He'll give you the next step, "Memento," which puts you on the road to earning Bastion.
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The secret corners of Menorca – away from the crowds
If these monuments are linked, they speak of a Mediterranean megalith culture stretching more than 3,000 miles and 8,000 years. Now they moulder away in the sun, sometimes unvisited from one week to the next.
Leaving the taulas, I aim for one last lunch, at the Hotel Torralbenc, in the tranquil farmlands near Cala en Porter. Upmarket but bohemian, swish yet relaxed, Torralbenc is like a Soho House with sangria, and it epitomises the new, chic Menorca. The rooms are in restored white farmhouses, the al fresco restaurant is surrounded by rustling vineyards. And the wine is surprisingly good, given that these vineyards are barely five years old.
While I chat with Isabel, I also note something unusual. Most of the affluent voices surrounding me are not British, German or French, they are Spanish. Why? Because, Isabel tells me, Menorca is where Spain’s rich and famous are now taking their Balearic holidays.
They have learned to skip the crowded clubs of Ibiza and the beaches of Mallorca and instead they come here: to the quiet isle of flower honey, pumpkin jam, ancient windmills, emerald seagrass meadows, homemade espadrilles, excellent scuba diving, lonely lighthouses, Friesian cows and gorgeous whitewashed lanes, bright with bougainvillea, that lead down to the turquoise coves of the south: Son Bou, Santo Tomas, Calas Covas.
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