Day 5 Give Yourself the gift of time

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I have this process I go through each morning when I open my email accounts.  

• Quickly scan for important or urgent emails
• Delete emails that I am not interested in by just reading the title
• Open the emails I know are quick reads
• Go through the rest of my emails to read and respond

This is a process each morning that takes me a good ten minutes before I get to the reading and responding part.

It occurred to me one day that I was systematically deleting some of the same emails each morning, but I guess FOMO (fear of missing out) was preventing me from unsubscribing altogether.  

I rationalized how little time it takes to delete an unwanted email.  However, once I began to look at how often I did that and how many of those types of emails I had coming in each day, I understood that this was a complete waste of time for the hope that one day the email would be relevant.

Somehow I get subscribed to lists all the time.  I might have ordered an item or given my name to a cashier at a check out, not sure, but there are new recurring emails that arrive all the time and I now have a better process.

Each Monday I set aside my usual ten minutes or so and review my inbox.  Instead of systematically deleting the irrelevant emails, I open them and unsubscribe.  I do this each week and usually delete about ten accounts each week.  

This exercise may not give you back a ton of time, but it certainly is one activity that will pay for itself from your initial investment each week.  I encourage you to take a deep dive into your inbox and see if there is some clutter you might clean out as well.

-E
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