Get Organized: Take Back Control of Your Inbox

"Email is a system that delivers other people’s priorities to your attention. It’s up to you to decide when that priority should be managed into your world. It’s not the other way around.” ~ Chris Brogan

There was a time when I would sit down in the morning to open my email and I would cringe a little, afraid to look at all the new messages piling into my Inbox already crammed full of messages I hadn’t yet had the time, or courage, to get to.

Overwhelmed? Oh, yes! A large percentage of the email we see on a daily basis is irrelevant, and the accumulation of it leads us down a slippery slope of distraction that definitely hampers our productivity.

Keeping your inbox organized and clutter-free isn’t an impossible goal, however. I’ve created a system that helped me organize my email and I’ll share the best parts of it here with you today. Start with a healthy dose of discipline, create and stick to a filing and organization system like I’m sharing with you here, and you’ll quickly take back control of your own Inbox.
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