The Email Avalanche – let it happen, let it flow, take it out

“I get so much email I just don’t know what to do about it.”

“I can’t seem to clean out my inbox…”

“I haven’t gotten to your email yet; I will get to it later.”

Heard any of those before? Have you ever had that feeling? You are not alone.

I learned that sometimes the easiest way is to learn some tricks that work around the issue, rather than trying to push through the chaos. Do a Google search for creating rules in Outlook, rules in Office 365, Filters in Gmail, and you will find all sorts of results. They all try to put the most important emails in the inbox and all others in another folder/filter.

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Work email, this is how I do it.

How do I do it? How do I get through all the emails at work?

The subject came up again recently, and I mentioned that I did it by accident as a Facebook post.

That post went something like this:

“I wasn’t trying to; I wasn’t… I reached Inbox Zero in the work email account. (Inbox was empty, other folders hold onto stuff that needs to be kept.)”

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Relationships and those around me

I recently completed my second L360, and one of the things I saw in the results was a need to work on relationship skills.

It is talking about personal skills with co-workers and clients, that sort of stuff. I think it is probably something deeper. I have never really been one to be the social life of the party. At large parties, I stick to smaller groups and have stayed near the outside of the crowd in case I needed to get away for a few minutes.

Friends, real friends, I have few. I always have been that way, all the way back as far as I can remember. I usually have a core group of people of whom I trust and within that group sometimes emerges someone who I trust implicitly or better than that I feel as if they are a brother or sister that I never had. If you were lucky enough to be one of those people you saw all sides of me, you knew me, and I knew you. I was comfortable around you, told you anything and all the things that go with a close relationship like that.

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