Tuesday, May 25, 2010
CEA's update #13
Item #5. Clean out my e-mail inbox and keep the number of e-mails below 20.
Progress: During the first week of this effort I reduced my e-mails from 357 to 98. Today I'm down to 9. All of them are read but need action. I also emptied several of the folders I was keeping and deleted the folders. I had Pending, Holding, Backlog, and Archive folders among others! How exactly those four really differed, I'm not sure. I learned a new term when I was reading a blog I learned about from http://www.happiness-project.com/ : e-mail bankruptcy. In e-mail bankruptcy, you eliminate ALL of your e-mails without reading them and start over. The blog discussion is interesting: one person admitted to having over 16,000 e-mails. Here's the post: http://www.mom-101.com/2010/05/drastic-inboxes-call-for-drastic.html
Progress: During the first week of this effort I reduced my e-mails from 357 to 98. Today I'm down to 9. All of them are read but need action. I also emptied several of the folders I was keeping and deleted the folders. I had Pending, Holding, Backlog, and Archive folders among others! How exactly those four really differed, I'm not sure. I learned a new term when I was reading a blog I learned about from http://www.happiness-project.com/ : e-mail bankruptcy. In e-mail bankruptcy, you eliminate ALL of your e-mails without reading them and start over. The blog discussion is interesting: one person admitted to having over 16,000 e-mails. Here's the post: http://www.mom-101.com/2010/05/drastic-inboxes-call-for-drastic.html
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