Wow… I’ve finally done the impossible… I’m emptied my inbox. The way I operate is to leave all emails in my inbox until I’ve responded to them, then they get filed into their folders. So over the last couple weeks I’ve made extra effort to answer emails, you know, avoid doing the standard “oh, I’ll answer that later” response to waiting emails.
But I gotta say… now that it’s done… I can’t procrastinate anymore. Usually I avoid doing somethings (i.e. updating my website) and answer emails, but now I have no choice but to do complete those nagging little jobs I need to do.
Now I know what you’re thinking… it’s not that hard to clean your inbox… but I don’t just have one email address to clean up… I have three. A Yahoo! account that I use for most of my friends and day to day activities, my Gmail account, which is my “professional” account and my sevennine.net email address (which gets routed to my gmail account) that is used for most of my internet activities. And I’m not even gonna even try to clean up my work inbox because I know that some things are a lost cause.