{"id":330,"date":"2011-06-20T19:25:55","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T19:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hotel-lobbyists.com\/blog\/?p=330"},"modified":"2011-06-20T19:25:55","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T19:25:55","slug":"cleaning-up-your-inbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotel-lobbyists.com\/index.php\/2011\/06\/20\/cleaning-up-your-inbox\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleaning Up Your Inbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hotel-lobbyists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/inboxempty.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-331\" title=\"inboxempty\" src=\"http:\/\/hotel-lobbyists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/inboxempty-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>Do you have a thousand items in your inbox, more than half of which are unread?\u00a0 Is your deleted folder filled with emails you\u2019re constantly going back to reference?\u00a0 Do you spend five minutes each time you check your email, sorting and resorting your inbox, alphabetizing it, find the right date, hoping you remember the subject line, searching for the email with the answer to the question you\u2019re being asked over and over.<\/p>\n<p>You need to clean up your inbox.<!--more-->Here are my rules.\u00a0 For one, I don\u2019t go to bed without an empty inbox.\u00a0 That\u2019s right.\u00a0 My inbox has a total of zero emails in it at the close of the work day.\u00a0 Sure, a simple way to accomplish this is to highlight all of your existing emails and delete them, but that\u2019s not exactly what I\u2019m calling for.\u00a0 For me, emails are like germs (necessary germs, but germs nonetheless).\u00a0 And I want them out of my inbox as quickly as possible.\u00a0 If I have to scroll at all to see an item in my inbox, I feel like I\u2019ve been infected.\u00a0 And the only antidote is to start dealing with them.\u00a0 The only items that should be in my inbox at any time, are emails which require some type of action on my part.\u00a0 If I have completed the action or if the email requires no action, once the email is read, I neatly tuck the email into an appropriate folder!<\/p>\n<p>Yes, folders.\u00a0 Create as many as your heart desires.\u00a0 Create subfolders in subfolders in subfolders.\u00a0 So long as your organization makes sense, gone will be the days where five minutes would ever be spent searching for an answer.\u00a0 If I can\u2019t readily answer an email in thirty seconds or less, then my organization skills need to be addressed.\u00a0 And emails which will never require your referencing \u2013 they also go into a folder \u2013 your deleted folder.\u00a0 And this deleted folder should be purged daily.\u00a0 No need to clog up your emails and slow up your computer with an overflowing deleted box.<\/p>\n<p>Another tip?\u00a0 Create the very same folders you\u2019ve created in your inbox in your sent mail.\u00a0 Rechecking your own response to emails is just as important, and sometimes more important, than finding the original email.\u00a0 Your folders in each should mirror each other and I promise, your searches will speed up exponentially.<\/p>\n<p>Back in the day when paper was relied on to hold all of the information we had, only the amazingly efficient workers could get all of the papers off their desk and into file cabinets each day.\u00a0 It was hardly realistic and frankly, it required some physical exertion and even the occasional paper cut.\u00a0 It\u2019s so much easier to file things away as they are dealt with in the electronic world.\u00a0 You can\u2019t imagine the delight you will experience when closing down for the day knowing that everything is in its place and your inbox is free and clear.\u00a0 It will change your life, I promise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have a thousand items in your inbox, more than half of which are unread?\u00a0 Is your deleted folder filled with emails you\u2019re constantly going back to reference?\u00a0 Do you spend five minutes each time you check your email, sorting and resorting your inbox, alphabetizing it, find the right date, hoping you remember the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.3 - 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