The Situation:
-> 80 odd emails came into the inbox within a period of 10 hours and I was feeling overwhelmed!
-> Just looking at them was pretty stressful! :)
Background
I put all of them into my ‘WIP‘ or ‘Work in Progress‘ folder. This folder is generally for all the emails that I can’t attend to at the current moment. Emails that need me to get back on action in a week, for example, get in there. This folder says ‘Rohan, don’t worry about them.. nothing too important in here that needs action’
This flows with my philosophy of Inbox Zero (which came from tips on Lifehacker) or no emails in my inbox.
The Solution
Solution was really simple eventually.
1) Put all emails into the WIP folder.
2) Take just 3 emails at a time and work on it..
3) Chugged on this for about 50 minutes and voila! I’d acted on all of them.
But, getting to this did involve some thinking. I refused to jump in to clearing them without a process..
Good learning..
A Learning a Day 