Some of my clients, myself included, have far too many e-mails clogging their INBOX. It is distracting and time consuming to look at the same list of e-mails several times, and to spend time, every day, deleting the flood of incoming e-mails that you are not interested in reading.
There are several ways to reduce the flow of mail coming into your INBOX:
- UNSUBSCRIBE: Open the e-mail, scroll down to the ‘unsubscribe’ link, and click ‘unsubscribe’. You have instructed the sender to stop sending you e-mail.
- JUNK: Mark the e-mail as ‘junk’ or ‘spam’. You have instructed your e-mail service to redirect future e-mail from this sender to your ‘junk’ or ‘spam’ folder.
- BLOCK: Right click on the email, and click “Block” sender. You have instructed your e-mail service to send e-mail from this sender directly to your recently deleted folder.
- DELETE: Click “Delete” to move the e-mail from your INBOX to your ‘recently deleted’ folder, but not instruct your e-mail service to stop delivering in the future.
An easy way to clean up the mass of old e-mails is to sort the list by who it is FROM. This way you can unsubscribe or spam/junk one of the senders you are not interested in and then delete the rest from the same sender. A few sessions of doing this and there will be far less incoming e-mail in no time.
If you have an overwhelming number of e-mails in your INBOX, and want to learn and practice the skill to clean up your INBOX and reduce incoming, unwanted e-mail in the future, this is your last chance to call me and enroll in the March 1 hands-on workshop. I guarantee you will get back some time and control over your INBOX .
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By Linda Lindquist, February 26, 2024
