Today was an inbox-cleaning kind of day for me and it was the chore we all know it can be. After several hours of doing it the old fashioned way, I remembered that,
last April at eSoup, Sharon Sarmiento wrote an in-depth series to help us zero those inboxes. You're right that "zero" doesn't feel like a realistic number, but definitely can be.
"Once we get it zeroed out, the goal is to zero it out each day so it never gets to the point where it's a big hairy beast that you're scared to look at." --Sharon Sarmiento, Email Ninja Moves: Zeroing out your inbox, eSoup
After you've read Part 1, you might as well go for the next two, Email Ninja Moves: Filters to the rescue! and Email Ninja Moves: Challenging Email Expectations.
Since I'm still four pages away from zero, there's no doubt that I need to re-read them. But, on the bright side, here's a little gem I managed to unearth today.
Cartoon: emailed from my mom
You are right about taking time to clear our inbox. It's like any task which we need to break into smaller pieces in order to make it look easier.
Posted by: Pamela | July 31, 2007 12:00 AM | Permalink to Comment