If you know me, or have read other my personal blog posts, then you know I am not a huge fan of email.  Now, before you freak out of course I understand the benefits of email and do enjoy communicating using email on certain occasions.  My problem with email is that you would never call me 10 different times, but you wouldn’t think twice about emailing me 10 times.  As a business owner, I was overwhelmed by how much email I receive that I am supposed to deal with, right?  I just could not keep up so I reviewed my email.  What was I really getting?  Much of the email I receive had no benefits to my life or business whatsoever.  Its information, its an FYI, or even more fun, a series of Reply All’s from various group I belong to.  (My personal favorite waste of time.) 

So I have been conducting a little experiment.  In an effort to reduce the amount of emails in my inbox, I have been trying to reduce the amount of emails I send.   I read somewhere for every one email you send, you receive three back.  And if you receive 100 emails each day and each takes 3 minutes to deal with, that’s five hours of your day.  No wonder we can’t get anything done!   So I send much less and am very aware of who I am sending to.  I only respond if I must and delete aggressively.  My goal by the end of the day in Zero Inbox, but usually I have around 10.   

What I can tell you is it has be fantastic not to have that panic feeling of all the emails I have to read and deal with in my inbox.   Just like everything else, you have to pick and choose; I choose to only respond to the most necessary, important emails.  We are looking forward to much more information on this Email Overload on our July 8th Teleclass with Lauren Halagarda.  Topic is DeTox Your Inbox.  Register today!

Tags: Angela Ploetz, Christa Wagner, Detox Your Inbox, Email Overload, Lauren Halagarda, Reduce Email

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