Clear my e-mail inbox

Okay, I was trying to clear up my email. Long story short, Yep – it’s definitely “all clear”! Hundreds of emails, saved and new incoming. GONE.

And yet, no panic. I actually feel a sense of relief. Anything THAT important will somehow make its way back into my e-life. And now, the best part is that I’ve been able to manage my In Box on a daily basis.

Consider this goal Mission Accomplished! I so verrry happy! :D

Close to 2,000…

and growing…

I really haven’t focused on this in some time. I’m almost afraid to look, but I will check the status now.

928 unread and 1699 total. There are definitely e-mails I can delete more quickly. I will work at getting it back to the last numbers.

Its been so hard to clear mi e-mail inbox. I have 4 accounts and theyre all need to clear.

Ive tried to do it in my free time or in my work. But it needs more time that Ive thought. But Ill keep trying some day

... just getting worser and worser…

I think my email accounts are breeding when I’m not looking. I will definitely meet this goal:

1) Immediately open all incoming emails for the day.
2) Delete them if possible.
3) Answer if necessary, then delete (the reply will be saved anyway if I need to reference).
4) Create a HOLD folder and throw in the emails I need to deal with in the next day or two.

I think the culprit are my friends who send me jokes and chain letters. I delete the chain letters without reading and only about 1% of the jokes are truly funny, 99% are groaners (which is sad because I’m so easily amused most of the time).

Deleted a few e-mails today. Not many but here are the current numbers:

878 unread and 1488 total.

Unfortunately, I haven’t accomplished what I set out to yet but I still have it in mind. On the bright side, I am slightly under the last count and I am trying to deal with new e-mails as they come in.

I also just realized that it doesn’t exactly make sense to be considering all e-mails when talking about cleaning up my e-mail account. I will still have messages I will have chosen to keep. I knew this but I think it slipped my mind and as I re-read my last post, it clicked that I am not trying to eliminate every single e-mail from my account so in reality, I have less to work through than I thought. I wonder if I should set a limit to how many and/or how long certain saved e-mails should be held onto.

Week of January 19: Eliminate 225 unread and 383 total.
Week of January 26: Eliminate 225 unread and 383 total.

I’ve been trying to deal with new e-mails as they come and to delete those needing to be deleted.

I mentioned wanting to have this e-mail account cleared by the end of January but it is such a busy time now. So though it would be possible, there are other priorities and I think it would be more reasonable for me to aim to cut the numbers from my last entry in half by the end of the month.

So by then, I would like the numbers to be 450 unread and 765 total. If less, even better!