Thursday, August 18, 2011

Unsubscribe Me

I've been trying to clean, organize and purge both at home and work to prepare for my time off.  I realized that it's not just my desk and home that need cleaning but my e-mails as well.  I must be on a ton of mailing lists and I don't read any of the e-mails I get.  I just briefly glance at them and then delete them.  I know it only takes a few seconds to hit the delete button, but add them all up and I must be wasting tons of time, so I decided it was time to take control and start cleaning up my in-boxes.  I have started to click the unsubscribe link to get off some mailing lists.  I'm not sure I notice a difference yet, but sometimes it takes a few days to take effect.  I'm not stopping all of them so before I hit unsubscribe I really think about the e-mails I want to continue receiving and that I will take the time to read and pay attention to.
I know this is something that's not going to change the world, but maybe it will make mine just a little bit easier and I won't feel inundated with information.  I guess if I wanted to get deep, I could say, it's the first step in cutting unnecessary things out of my life and that eventually I'll move it out of my e-mail in-boxes and onto other things in my life.  But let's be honest that probably won't happen and I don't know what else I would cut out.

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