Clean up your email inbox and outbox

This is could be a tough assignment, one that will probably take a lot more than a few minutes. In fact you're probably going to have to set a day aside, or come in on the weekend to have a good go at it.

Do the easy 'stuff' first.

Start by seeing how many emails are in your inbox. Chances are there are thousands. Same with your outbox.

Sort the inbox by name. There will be a host of emails you haven't looked at, all from the same place.

(Set up a junk/spam system to gradually eliminate a lot of the 'stuff' that's come 'unannounced and unsolicited'. Start putting the emails that are junk and spam into the junk folder and every few days delete them.)

Select all those from the same source that you can confidentially delete and hit delete'.

If there are 'important' emails to save, create a series of folders and transfer the emails into them.

Unsubscribe to all the emails you never read.

Now do the same with the sent and drafts folders.

Now for the depressing news.

When you leave the organisation you work for someone is going to come in a wipe your computer of everything that's stored on it.

Take a bucket and fill it with water,
Put your hand in it up to the wrist,
Pull it out and the hole that’s remaining
Is a measure of how you will be missed.

There Is No Indispensable Man
by Saxon N. White Kessinger

Regards and best wishes

John Miller

Daily Health Break

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