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I was recently reading a blog post from Leslie Shreve, of Productive Day.com http:\/\/productiveday.com\/<\/a> about E-Hoarding.<\/p>\n

As a virtual business owner, I’m always trying to find new ways to keep myself organized and to tame the various forms of clutter that I seem to collect.<\/p>\n

And while I am admittedly a collector of many things that I probably don’t need<\/strong> (my husband would laugh at that one!)\u00a0 one of the things I actually do have good control over is my email. I have a system in place to keep my email clean and clear, and although I still probably have more ‘on file’ than many people, I am confident that my system works for me.<\/strong><\/p>\n

What do I do? First, I use my email correspondence with my clients as a means of check and balance for what I have done for them in any given month. So each month I file all of the sent and received messages in their folder. I keep those for 60 days – just in case we need to go back to find anything. Anything over 60 days gets deleted (of course any documents or important information gets saved to a shared folder in Dropbox as necessary if we need access to it). It’s an easy cycle each month and it feels great to delete thousands of email each month.<\/p>\n

For my non-client email, I recently removed most of my ‘Message Rules’ – I had set up a system to filter messages when they came in. I found that I wasn’t looking at the filtered messages, and ended up collecting what I didn’t need. So now everything except client email goes right to my inbox, and I am forced to look at it – read it, keep it or delete it. It’s working well for me also, and I can also see at a glance whether I need to unsubscribe to something if it’s not serving me.<\/p>\n

As for other e-collection, I have also gotten quite a hold on this. I used to subscribe to lots of free stuff<\/strong> with the intention of using it one day (been there too?). Now I am much more selective<\/strong> about what I subscribe to because guess what … someone will always be able to provide a report about productivity, or Facebook changes or tips about something that I am interested in. I don’t have to collect them all now, and neither do you. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

If you are an e-hoarder, I’d love to hear what you collect and why<\/strong> you think you need it.<\/strong> I’ve been there, I get it – and though I still have a lot of things I probably don’t need (insert husband’s LOL here), I know that I am monitoring it all the time, and I’m much better than I used to be!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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