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Welcome to Day 11.
A constant influx of emails, newspapers, magazines, catalogues, and social media updates can create a strong feeling of overwhelm in our lives.
Today let’s simplify these information subscriptions…
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Working on deleting emails and newsletters and refocusing on new interests and more relevant information…..like your programs.
In terms of email I have cleared my personal and professional inbox and email storage, and will now make a conscious effort to unsubscribe for any information that enters there from now on. I have also not renewed my subscription to National Geographic, which hurts to write, but being brutally honest I never have a chance to admire more than the cover photo. Tough decision but I’m being brave!
Brilliant task. I sorted my yahoo by “unread mail” to see what I was being sent and never reading. Unsubscribed from 10 newsletters in the blink of an eye. I’m going to be mindful of things coming in and unsubscribe from them rather than just deleting or leaving unread. This is a VERY important task for me and it has dominoed into making a start into sorting out my work computer – deleting and filing thousands of documents. If they are in some kind of folder I feel better and more organised. This feels good!
I’ve continued to unsubscribe from newsletters since the first time I did this task but it’s sporatic. Today I unsubscribed from about 20 newsletters, including a bunch of deal sites (Groupon-like sites). These will make a big different because they send daily deal newsletters. Also, I’m now more aware of newsletters I’m no longer interested in so I am choosing to unsubscribe rather than let the newsletters come and just sit in my in-box.
Yep – definitely needed to do this one 🙂
A couple of months back i did the 7 habits of email steps you developed Michele and unsubscribed to almost everything. Therefore I feel I have already achieved this step. However I do promise that over the course of the next week I will just make sure that every bit of information that I receive is definitely still of interest/immediate use to me.
Good strategy Amanda. 🙂
For the last three days, I have unsubscribed to each mailer that I don’t actually read any more. It’s been at least ten a day. Funny, it’s so easy to just click delete, but so unnecessary. It’s almost as quick to requested being unsubscribed.
Exactly! Nice one Claire. 🙂
I just unsubscribed from 10 sites… I’d been meaning to do that, just never took the time. Thank you for the prompt!
Dropped 10 more from my “junk mail” e-mail address!
Lisa Chappa I love that feeling Lisa!
I do that from time to time. My inbox gets CRAZY because I randomly subscribe to stuff 🙂
I’m running behind, but I can’t see this challenge. Was it taken off?
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It’s working today. I don’t know what happened yesterday, but it’s back. Thank you!
I am so excited-I unsubscribed to several e-mails before I reached today’s challenge. I like to have an empty in box and feel stressed when I have so many e-mails and I don’t feel as though I can get to them. I already learned-I don’t have to look at every e-mail every day.
I’m definitely an information hoarder! I unsubscribed from at least a dozen email lists this morning. Magazines and catalogues are going to be harder to let go of, though.
Great task – I’ve been meaning to do this for some time. So far I unsubscribed from 6 newsletters and deleted my Google+ account. Because I’m having trouble letting go of some e-newsletters, another thing I’m considering is setting up another account for the stuff that’s important to me on a regular basis and leave the current account for occasional viewing. I’ve done this before and find I rarely go back to look and if there was something I missed, I just re-subscribe with my new email address. Just want to add, I love some of the ideas others have shared below 🙂
It’s one of the things I love best about these programs Ellen – people share such great ideas and also support for each other 🙂
I’ve been unsubbing from “deals” sites and “notification’ style emails. It seems like they just multiply by themselves in my inbox. The shopping offers are the worst.
Today I have eliminated 8 weekly update emails. After that, I started removing my name from blog notifications that I just plain don’t have time for. That should cover more than 2/3 of my email load. It does make more sense to me to take the time to search for specific information than to read thru what amounts to hours of info. I do like the idea about filtering mail into catagory folders. I think I will give that a try as well.
I have unsubbed today from five lists. Then again, I do this every two-three months, since these seem to accumulate. I also use filters for things I know I want to eventually read, but are low-level stuff.
I do this regularly. I am merciless. It’s so easyntomfind information with search engines that I am working hard to keep my email at a minimum.
Exactly! 🙂
I unsubscibed from 12 email lists/daily deal sites from my personal email that I don’t really read/need. I just went to my trash folder to see what I had recently deleted. How liberating! I am also doing this for my work email, where I subscribe to industry publications and updates. (example: I don’t need to get LinkedIn updates from all of my newsgroups!)
Haha it feels great Jen!!
Information overload and Information toxicity are a challenge. I screen my telephone calls for telemarketers, political calls and pollsters (they sneak through the “no-call” list). I dump junk mail, catalogs and junk mail as I sort the mail. I delete spams on email daily. Take my name off unwanted email lists weekly (during TV commercials). I’ve changed my Facebook settings so that I don’t receive every posting from far-away friends (I really don’t need to know about their traffic problems, but I do enjoy the photos of their children).
It’s VERY freeing not to focus on mind clutter and to know that I can get any info I need on MY timetable. (a big deal for those of us who once saved every professional or family journal/book/correspondence b/c we might need it someday!)
Using my “deleted items” folders, I have unsubscribed from eleven mailing lists on my primary email account (several of these had multiple newsletters and promotional emails) and 19 lists on my yahoo account (used primarily for “junk” email). This should knock out several minutes every morning of just deleting unwanted email! I gave up on Twitter shortly after I joined, have never had Instagram, and am happy to say that Facebook (I have less than 100 friends) and Pinterest actually do serve me, not the other way around. Great category to cover! I think this one needs regular maintenance to keep up with.
I like your strategic decluttering there Cheri. 🙂
I’ve created a “reading list” folder in my inbox. When I get something from a list I’m not sure whether or not to cancel, I put it in this folder. Once a week, I check it out, and if it’s more of a burden than a pleasure to have to read, I cancel! I also have a folder for ‘daily deals’ sites. I have emails filtered to go directly into that folder, and I only look at it when I am actually looking for a particular item. At that time, I delete all the outdated deals, and look only at the current ones. This has really helped me to save $$. Another thing I do, for emails that contain links I’m sure I’ll want someday, such as homeschooling info I might want to reference in the future, is to forward the email directly into evernote. That way, I can search for the item in the future, but deal with it quickly and easily now.
Sounds like a good system you’ve got there Marla. 🙂
I see gmail will be releasing a tabbed inbox in the next week….it will take a bit to get used to the tabs they’ve selected, and a while to recreate my filters,but I’m looking forward to it.
It’s hard to keep the amount of inbound email under control. Some of it can be a distraction since it is tempting to “window shop” the eye candy ads that arrive several times each day. I just unsubscribed from a number of shopping, entertainment and travel lists.