Cut the Ties that Bind and Simply Unsubscribe

Welcome back from the weekend! The last time I was here, I talked about how life is simple but we make it complicated.  In so many ways we create our own stress. Every day things are made to be such a huge task that eventually we either hit the delay button aka procrastinate, or we don't do it at all.  In the last week I've started focusing on the things in my day that have become a time consuming and/or stressful task.  One of the first things I found was that my personal email was a serious problem.  Looking at it you would think that I had given my email to every retailer out there, it's possible, I love a good deal.  Also, with my Facebook and Pinterest accounts dumping into it, the number of emails in my box had stopped being manageable and had started being ignored. I was aware of the situation but I just didnt have the time to deal with it. I tried the daily approach, that didn't work. I tried doing it on the weekend but by then I had amassed so much mail that I either didnt want to, it's the weekend hello, or I simply didn't have the time to go through it, there was important stuff in there too. Which brings me to last week when I had targeted the problem and began my strategy of attack.  One by one I deleted the various " here's what's new" and "end of season sale" emails from my favorite stores. I watched as my numbers slowly decreased and I could feel the weight lifting off of my shoulders but the true freedom came when as I reached each stores final email, I opened it, scrolled to the bottom and clicked UNSUBSCRIBE. Ah at last the emails were gone and now they were never coming back.

It's been days since I completed Project Email Clean Sweep, and my mailbox is clean, organized and most importantly no longer stressful.  I've also noticed that because I'm no longer getting the notifications of sales, etc. my urge to shop has died down.  Out of sight of mind I guess.  I'd say for anyone that has the same problem that I had, try it out and see if you dont feel ten times better with that little change.

Your email is like your phone number, you don't want to give to just anybody.

With that task complete, I'm on to my next one so stay tuned...

~KG