Email Decluttering

Still on the topic of decluttering your email …

In order to stay on top of the game of keeping up with all the incoming emails you need to delete your old emails several times a week. Wait longer than that and you will be back in your knee-deep clutter.If you find it so difficult to delete old emails from dear friends, and you feel that they are that important, save them on a disk. I can almost guarantee that you will never return to that disk. But at least you have peace of mind – and your inbox is fresh and clean. There is one thing about clutter. Just because you clean things up once does not mean that you are out of trouble. This is a daily thing. This is a habit and you have to keep working at it daily, or at least several times a week. It will mean creating a new habit.

What is good about decluttering once is that it shows that you can do it and it also means that you can do it again. What helps to make this habit stick with you is that your new habit has to be quick and easy.

To have an inbox that is free from clutter makes you feel good. Decluttering in all areas of your life affects how you feel. And it FREES you so that you can move on to other things.

Decluttering your email helps you so that you can save time and you can save your sanity. Both make you feel REALLY good! Would you like to learn more? You can find lots more good info at declutterfast.com. Or you can click here:

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:

Get Help in Decluttering Your House

An untidy house that is messy from clutter feels like an overwhelming task to tidy up. That is when we tend to give up. But who says you have to do the whole job alone? It is a huge task and requires a lot of time. This is where you designate a small amount of time, like 15 minutes, to the tidying up task. And who says that you have to do it alone? Ask your teenager or adolescent to give you a hand. Ask him or her devote 15 minutes to a task. (You may have to negotiate in order to get assistance from family members but that's ok.)

Give detailed instructions as to which area he or she is to declutter. More than one family member can also be given a task. Set the timer.

When several people get to work, a lot gets done in a short time. Give it a try! It will help you feel as you are on top of the task and you will feel as though this task is doable – YOU CAN DO IT! And you will feel really good about it! You will find that you can save time – lots of it.

There are many wonderful ideas as to how to declutter your space and you can find lots of information given by those who are professionals in this. Declutterfast.com is full of great ideas. For more information, click here:

Email Can Clutter Your Computer

Some tasks have a way of getting out of hand and cluttering up our lives unless we are very careful. Email is an example. So often you sit down at the computer with the goal of being there only to check one item and it leads to one site after another and soon an hour has passed. We can spend a lot of time at the computer!

Email is one example where so much time can be spent. And there are a lot of emails that end up in the inbox so that it is difficult to find what you need to see the next time you are there. There is a way to keep it under control and not let it control you.

What you need to do is to set your timer to go off after 15 minutes, or whatever amount of time that you wish to devote to it. Use that time to sort and delete and deal with all that is there. When the bell rings, you are finished.

Chances are that you aren’t really finished with all of the emails, but the ones that need attention will be the first for you to deal with the next time you open up your email. Make sure that you deal with your mail on a first come, first served method. It works! Try it and see how you can make it work.

You will find that you can save time using this method. You will find that you can save on frustration as well. And that’s a good thing!

There are many tips on decluttering your life and your living space. Declutterfast.com is full of helpful information. Check it out and you will see for yourself. For more info, click here:

Am I Really a Clutter Bug?

Question: What are the signs that you are a clutter bug?

One tell-tale sign that you have clutter is when horizontal surfaces have piles of stuff that shouldn’t be there.

You have clutter when there are piles of things on the floor. That is a big horizontal surface!It is so easy to use tables, countertops, desk tops, tops of furniture to pile things. The problem with piling things on these horizontal surfaces is that the stuff stays there for so long – weeks, months and sometimes even years.

The good thing is that there is a limit as to how much you can actually put on any one piece of furniture – desk, table, or chair. That is when you are forced to deal with it. It is like your own personal horror show. As you finally are forced to go through the pile, it can be like a trip down memory lane. You surprise yourself by finding items you forgot you had! Here is the opportunity to take each item and put it where it belongs. Some things will make you wonder why it ever got kept – it’s home is in the trash bag. There will be photos and other memorabilia that have great worth. You are glad that you located them, and they need a real home, not just sitting on some pile where you can’t even find it when you want it.

This exercise may take a while as you work your way across one horizontal surface, but this is great progress.

This is a good feeling! And while you are working your way down to the actual surface, make sure you give it a good cleaning. Perhaps a damp cloth and if it is a wood surface you will want to give it a good polishing. This is progress! Make it shine!

As you deal with horizontal surfaces you will find that a few minutes a day will make a huge dent in the whole decluttering process. Next day you can tackle another similar task, perhaps a shelf or desk. As you make your way through the room and then the whole house, you will find that as you deal with each horizontal surface and each item on it, that a huge portion of the task has been completed.

Take time to congratulate yourself! You are getting to the bottom of the decluttering task.

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Attacking the Clutter Issue

Are you one of those people that has a room that is super full of clutter? Has it become one of those rooms that you hate to go in? Has it become your "junk room" and you are thankful that it has a door so that you can keep it shut? Perhaps it is your basement, or your bedroom, or perhaps your garage.

Clutter can affect you emotionally and make you feel sapped of energy and just drowning in stuff. On the other hand, a room that has things in place can make you feel energized and feeling as though you can take on the world – and that is a good feeling!If you feel as though you are totally overcome by the clutter in your living space, it is time to take just one part of it and attack it. Take just one part of your clutter and make it look good. When you see the progress you will feel like you can take on more. No longer overwhelmed. Start just with one room and deal with the clothes and linens that are out of place. Let’s say the bedroom. Go through the clothing. If it is clothing that you wear put it in place in the wardrobe or drawer. Get the clothing items off of the floor. It might take some tall talking to get your teenager to do that.

After you have dealt with the clothing in one room you will see a huge difference. You will find that you want to move on to another part of the house, another corner. Just having dealt with clothing and linens has made a huge dent in the clutter. Do you need more info on how to get started in decluttering your space? Or help in going on to the next step? Declutter.com is one of those resources. There is lots of help available…just click here: