Taming the Email Clutter

Email – it is such a wonderful piece of technology but have you noticed how it can become such an item of absolute clutter? It comes in every day and it can so easily pile up and become really cumbersome to handle, like an tiger that needs to be tamed.

Just a few tips to get you going on decluttering your email:

1. When you check your mail each day, make sure you deal completely with each piece of mail. Delete it or file it.

2. Don’t file every piece of email from a certain person. This will pile up to a huge amount of communication. There may be a piece of information worth keeping but likely not the whole email. If you do choose to keep them, make sure that you revisit it in a short while and then delete it.l

3. And what about all that OLD email? Each day take a minute or two to deal with OLD email. The older the email, the less likely it will be that you have use for it! You will likely be able to delete almost all of the OLD email.

4. If you come across emails that are truly ‘keepers’, save them on a disk. Label the disk so that you’ll know where to find the information when you need it.

5. Once you have your mails in order, you will need to make it a habit to deal with it each day as it comes in. In this way you will be keeping ahead of the game.

6. Another idea is to set yourself a cut-off date as to how long you will keep email. If you choose to keep them for six months, you will find that you can live without it!

7. You can spend so much time reading old email. You need to set yourself an amount of time that you spend on your mail. For example, two hours spent on reading old email is not a good use of your time.

There are lots more tips as in keeping your email clutter-free. Once you have this part of your life tamed you will find that you can save time, lots of time. There is much more information in declutterfast.com. To check out the full info, make sure that you click here: