Creating a Clutter Free Inbox

Email is a primary source of communication for many of us.   We keep in contact with friends,  families, and receive updates regarding work related activities. Then there’s the other email cluttering up the inbox, promotional emails, chain emails informing you if don’t forward it to 10 people your dog will die tomorrow.   You know the stuff I’m talking about.  How long does it take for you to check your email and how many times a day do you check it?   Here are three tips to create a clutter free inbox.   These tips will save some serious time.

First,  check your email less often.  Try only checking your email twice a day, three times at most if you can swing it.  I realize that some jobs require more frequent email communication.  This will allow you to have a clutter free schedule as well.  Now onto the next tip to reduce clutter in your inbox.

When it’s time to check your email, set a timer for 15 minutes. By now you can tell that my favorite decluttering tool is the timer…I literally use it for all my tedious tasks.   Sort through the irrelevant email- newsletters, updates from your websites, and promotional emails, unsubscribe from them during this 15 minutes.  Some of these emails you might enjoy reading,  consider using a feed reader to streamline these updates.  You want to be clutter free, right?

Finally,  make immediate decisions while checking your email to clear it from clutter.  Does the message: need to be deleted, reported as spam, replied to, action required, or archived?
Quick decision making prevents you from being bogged down from the nonsense clutter.

A clutter free inbox is a great tool for focused communication, greater results produced for work related tasks.   Check your email less, set the timer, and make immediate decisions.  You are on your way to creating a clutter free inbox.

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