Emails, emails, everywhere and too many to read.
Like most people, I get too many emails and spend too much time on them.

I have separate email accounts for friends, general business, newsletters and speaking, which makes for too many emails.

This past week my husband asked me to clear my emails by Sunday.
I just finished a six part teleconference course that pushed me behind.
Then we were gone for 12 days to see family this month, and the emails piled up.
On top of that I have been making some financial changes that have taken quite a bit of my time. More emails piled up.

My husband suggested just blatantly hitting the delete key and completely emptying the email boxes. He says anyone who wants to talk to me will contact me again.
But my business emails are not social.
Most of my emails will keep coming unless I unsubscribe. They are newsletters or blogs. Deleting will not stop the deluge.

How do you get out from under?
The only thing that has worked for me is to decide that a handful of people get to remain.

Here are my steps:
1. I sort the emails by name instead of date. to make both reading and deleting go faster.

1. I unsubscribe from those I don’t really care about or don’t need to read.

2. I delete those I can skip reading for now.
   Maybe next month I’ll read their newsletter.

3. I determine who are the better experts or have something that resonates with me? Those I read and delete. The rest are unsubscribed too.

If you have some good tips for keeping your email box low, please add a comment.

Eileen

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