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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Can you hear me Bose? (Bose OE headphones actually sound good)

Music has the power to lift, drop, and otherwise change your perspective and mood.

I listen to music when I wake up in the morning, driving, at work, at lunch, after work, and I listen to music sometimes before going to bed (unless it is likely to keep me from sleeping then that’s a no-no). I may not be in the music industry, but I guess it could be said that music is a part of my life. That being said…

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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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