HAILLEY GRIFFIS Happy Monday 🌞 Is your inbox calm or chaotic? For me, it’s been the latter recently. If you joined recently, hi 👋 I’m Hailley. I’ve always built systems to help me stay calm and organized — at work (as a marketing leader at Buffer) and at home (as a mom of two). This week, I’m sharing my email system that aims to reduce how much time I spend in my inbox while still being responsive. As someone who thrives with inbox zero, seeing my personal inbox hit 400+ emails last week...
19 days ago • 3 min read
HAILLEY GRIFFIS Happy Monday 🌞 I’m recently adjusted back to my time zone after a long but wonderful trip to Türkiye with the Buffer team. If you joined recently, hi 👋 I’m Hailley. I’ve always built systems to help me stay calm and organized — at work (as a marketing leader at Buffer) and at home (as a remote mom of two). At Buffer, we do all-company retreats annually. After missing last year’s retreat (I was about to welcome my son!), this one felt especially meaningful. There were so many...
26 days ago • 3 min read
HAILLEY GRIFFIS Happy Monday 🌞 If you joined recently, hi 👋 I’m Hailley. I’ve always built systems to help me stay calm and organized — at work (as a marketing leader at Buffer) and at home (as a remote mom of two). Lately, even my best systems are feeling the strain. For the past few weeks, I’ve been starting my days with around 40 tasks on my to-do list — and that’s just not reasonable. Some of this comes from poor workload planning on my part (read more about my usual system for that...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
HAILLEY GRIFFIS Happy Monday 🌞 If you joined recently, hi 👋 I’m Hailley. I’ve always created systems for my work (as a Marketing leader at Buffer) and life (as a remote worker and mom of two) where I can stay productive, calm, and organized. This week, we’re chatting about career planning — specifically, a simple tool I call the “future job description” that has transformed how I think about my career growth. For years now, I’ve been collecting job descriptions that match or slightly exceed...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
HAILLEY GRIFFIS Happy Monday 🌞 If you joined recently, hi 👋 I'm Hailley. I've always created systems for my work (as a Marketing leader at Buffer) and life (as a remote worker and mom of two) where I can stay productive, calm, and organized. This week, we are talking about one of my favorite systems and resources — creating an accomplishments list. It’s (somehow already) the end of Q1, and now is an excellent time to start tracking your accomplishments for this year if this isn’t already a...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
HAILLEY GRIFFIS Happy Monday 🌞 If you joined recently, hi 👋 I’m Hailley. I’ve always created systems for my work (as a Marketing leader at Buffer) and life (as a remote worker and mom of two) where I can stay productive, calm, and organized. This week, we’re chatting about a simple content creation system — specifically, an easy system that any professional can use to create content and post more consistently on LinkedIn. There are a ton of benefits to posting on LinkedIn (from connecting...
2 months ago • 2 min read
HAILLEY GRIFFIS Happy Monday 🌞 If you joined recently, hi 👋 I’m Hailley. I’ve always created systems for my work (as a Marketing leader at Buffer) and life (as a remote worker and mom of two) where I can stay productive, calm, and organized. This week, we’re chatting about AI — specifically, four different ways to use AI to help you think more deeply or get unblocked at work. I’ll admit I was slow to adopt AI after the release of ChatGPT. I eventually decided to invest more time in using AI...
2 months ago • 2 min read
HAILLEY GRIFFIS Happy Monday 🌞 I’m so glad to be back to this newsletter. If you joined recently, hi 👋 I’m Hailley. I’ve always created systems for my work (as a Marketing leader at Buffer) and life (as a remote worker and mom of two) where I can stay productive, calm, and organized. This week we’re chatting about mental processing. Understanding your natural thinking style can dramatically improve how you work, communicate, and solve problems. Whether you know it or not, you likely fall into...
3 months ago • 3 min read
HAILLEY GRIFFIS Happy Monday 🌞 Can you think of a challenge you have in your work or life right now? If you’re like me, you have a number of challenges that range from big to small. Some things on my mind include iterating on Buffer’s blog content, spending more time reading the books on my 2024 reading list, and getting more sleep. Over the years, I’ve developed a simple method for tackling these sorts of questions. (Except for that last one — that is in the hands of my 7-month-old.) Here’s...
7 months ago • 2 min read