Taming E-mails
I found some tips on how to organize e-mails to make life simple on Biztratblog and would like to share with you:
The main issues with e-mail (in my opinion) are that it 1) is on 24/7; 2) feeds upon itself; 3) is insidious in the tentacles it spreads in the in box -- one single e-mail, depending on how many individuals it is forwarded to multiplies exponentially without your ever having hit the "send" button.
To gain control of your inbox you need to start at the beginning. Perhaps dedicate a day or a half a day to simply going through each and every unread message in your inbox. Yes, it's overwhelming but it's the only way to get off to a fresh start. Set a time frame within your mind as to when you will complete the task. If you want a clean inbox by May 1, know that you will have to whittle down the messages in chunks to get to that point.
Set up folders for e-mail, drag messages into those folders when they come in, but don't think that putting them in a folder makes them "out of sight, out of mind" it simply makes the inbox more manageable. Set up folders that make sense to you such as: pending jobs, meetings, information requests, etc.
by Robbi Hess
The main issues with e-mail (in my opinion) are that it 1) is on 24/7; 2) feeds upon itself; 3) is insidious in the tentacles it spreads in the in box -- one single e-mail, depending on how many individuals it is forwarded to multiplies exponentially without your ever having hit the "send" button.
To gain control of your inbox you need to start at the beginning. Perhaps dedicate a day or a half a day to simply going through each and every unread message in your inbox. Yes, it's overwhelming but it's the only way to get off to a fresh start. Set a time frame within your mind as to when you will complete the task. If you want a clean inbox by May 1, know that you will have to whittle down the messages in chunks to get to that point.
Set up folders for e-mail, drag messages into those folders when they come in, but don't think that putting them in a folder makes them "out of sight, out of mind" it simply makes the inbox more manageable. Set up folders that make sense to you such as: pending jobs, meetings, information requests, etc.
by Robbi Hess
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