Email Cleansing as a Path to Peace
SECRETSOFYVE
I don’t know about you, but let me tell you that it feels so good to hit the unsubscribe button for particular emails. In the spirit of honoring a minimalist lifestyle, I am no longer willing to keep checking off emails just to delete them. I am all about sales and updated information, but if I am receiving several per day or even once a day from the same source, I get absolutely overwhelmed. Let’s not even get into how clogged our inbox or folders become (actually, we kind of will). As an aspiring minimalist who is also an advocate for inner harmony, I am here to discuss email cleansing as a path to peace.
To begin, I realized that I was hyperventilating about the number of unread correspondences in my inbox each time I signed into my email. Albeit many of them were sales, there were also numerous emails from Instagram influencers offering various growth strategies for a number of life issues. From podcasting and writing code to increasing email lists and boosting social media growth and businesses. Many of them were helpful, but I realized that there was no way I could read them all in a day or even in a week. I had found a number of similar figures who all know each other, and I realized that a lot of the information that was shared was repetitive even though there was a unique element here and there for each one.
Regardless, I was skipping over emails instead of actually learning, thus I decided to do what I know is a system that works in my home and I created folders. If 5 figures were emailing me about the same topic, I would keep my subscription to one or two of them active. I then save one email each of the remaining 3 in a folder called “TO LEARN”, and then unsubscribe. If I ever have the time or feel I have the capacity to learn more, then I can always go back and research those individuals and their learning strategies again.
I followed this same strategy for any sales companies especially ones that I had not yet tried, but did not want to forget about. After saving only one email from each of them, I unsubscribed and moved the emails I had saved to a folder called “TO BUY.” Many of the times, I kept my subscriptions active because I did not want to miss a sale, but then I realized that each time I visited their website, the same sales codes were available at the top for the general public, therefore were not exclusive.
Adopting this way of dealing with background noise has helped me clean up my inbox, lessen the visual background noise, invite additional peace and honestly feel more at ease.
Let me know if this method of decluttering your inbox is one you are willing to try or have already tried, and whether it was helpful. Cheers to not opening our laptops and dreading what awaits.
SECRETSOFYVE
Yve (pronounced Eve) is a Public Health and a Sustainable Development Specialist, Content Creator, Podcaster (www.secretsofyve.com ) and the CEO of the PATESI Foundation (www.patesifoundation.org) and PATESI LLC (www.patesillc.com ). Her family’s blog is located at: www.parentsofdragons.com