Quick Organization Challenge - Email
Well this is cool … after I did the favorite’s organization challenge, I wasn’t sure how quickly I’d be able to come up with another one … ha, needless to say it didn’t take too long at all
(Just leave it to the queen of un-organization … I’ll come up with all kinds of ideas!)
This morning I stumbled upon an email that I was supposed to have replied to at the beginning of last week - not replied too. A little later this morning I was searching for another email that I just knew I had kept. After searching and searching - wasting entirely too much time … I figured it out.
Time for another quick organization challenge!
As you can tell, this time we’re working on those email accounts. I honestly hope for your sake that yours doesn’t look anything like mine did.
I used to have a little personal ‘un-written’ rule that I never allowed my inbox get any “fuller” than what I could see on the first page. (And this really wasn’t all that long ago …)
That means, by the way I had my settings set, I could only have 50 emails sitting in my in box at a time. And this worked … for really long time. Ugh, not so much the case anymore! Little by little I changed my settings until I reached the maximum amount of emails to show per page - 200!
But here’s where it gets scary … I had 238!
Yikes - it was certainly time to do something.
I’m happy to announce that I now have 99 emails showing on my first page of email! (Okay, I’m not really happy or proud to say that but … gee, it sure is better than 238!)
Anyway, that means I took care of 139 emails. (Okay, is that scary or is that sad? I’m thinking I need my VA to do a little more work for me - what do you think?)
So, what did I do?
First I went through every single email and I was happy to find that a few pieces of spam were mixed in there - you know the ones that have a “way past” date.
Of course they were easy enough to take care of - it’s called D-E-L-E-T-E
I have a tendency to write emails to myself. Am I the only strange one who does this? ROFL! Seriously, if I want to remember something or check into something later on … I’ll email myself so I don’t forget. I took all these emails, opened up a notepad and started myself a list. That probably took care of about ten or so emails and turned them into just one.
After that I went through all the emails that needed a home. I have another tendency to let emails pile up in my inbox - emails that I do need to keep a hold of but don’t necesssarily need anything done to them right now. So, I created some new folders and sent those emails home. (And by the way … that’s just a new habit I picked up, lol!)
Eventually I had quite a handful emails that just had something that needed to be taken care of. These were things that were not really important so I just left them pile up. I took the time to do what needed done and deleted those too.
(Although, I have to say I did find another email that was supposed to have been taken care of a while ago also. I was so embarrassed to reply to that one - luckily I know she’ll forgive me!)
So after I got all those taken care of I did go one step further and set up a few filters. Hopefully this will help keep my inbox a little more cleaner and my whole email account a little easier to navigate. I can say it looks great!
Now if I could just get back to 50 I’d be in heaven … although something tells me that’s not ever gonna happen again! lol!
Maybe no one else is even going to do this challenge with me … lol … I’m probably the only ones with these odd tendencies and habits. Please leave me a comment and either tell me I’m not alone or … share your strange tendency with me.
Please … I sure could use some re-assurance here!









