7 simple tips to Email Declutter

[Dias Lu]

Face it, its very common nowadays to always check our emails. With ads, subscriptions, friends and work, we often have tonnes of emails to check! With all the micro managing involve, we often lose track of time and spend time reading almost many useless emails!

Can you relate to such an experience? I do, because personally as an internet marketer, I receive tonnes of emails. Here are some tips to manage your emails:

1. Allocated an amount of time daily for email checking. This is so important and I cannot stress this enough. 30 mins/day will be more than enough for email check.

2. Stop the micro-manage! This is a real temptation! Often we tend to want to read more emails the moment we open our inbox. But with thousands of messages (with some spams!) how could you possibly read all?

3. Prioritize which type of email to read. Emails from advertisers 99% of the time are probably not too good of a deal, because if they are good, they wouldnt need to keep sending. Read the important ones , e.g. work related, friends, business, etc.

4. Delete useless emails. The act of deleting huge chunk of emails will give us a sense of clarity and time. Usually we spend a lot of time in emails because we are overwhelm. Psychotically by deleting those rubbish, we gain control.

5. Go through selected ones thoroughly. This requires focus. When you read an email, decide whether you want to delete it or reply immediately. Dun even bother to leave it on the inbox because chances is that, you probably wont go back to read it again.

6. Set filter options. Simple, filter out all the spam.

7. Reduce your computer usage. Now unless you're running on your own internet business, chances is that if u use the pc often, with the twitter and facebook around, more emails will come in and on and on and you never get to read them all! Take a walk and do some exercise instead! Dun be a couch potato at the computer!