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How Emptying Your Inbox Will Change Your Life
How to declutter the cloud in your brain
So I use Gmail. This is only relevant because the tips I provide here pertain directly to the functionality of that particular provider. After using the same username for well near a decade, I had begun to notice my unread messages slowly climb to a point that just became outlandish.
I decided a few years back to start deleting emails that had no meaning to me in an attempt to trim down that 6,000+ number that loomed in my face every time I checked my messages. After about an hour of checking that box to select 50 at a time then deleting them “in bulk”, it became clear that I was hardly even making a dent.
It seemed like I was just wasting my valuable time. So I gave that up and went back to staring at the inside of my eyelids or scratching an itch or whatever was so pressing at the time. Most likely it had something to do with my Playstation in all honesty.
Anyway,
I let that slide for another few years and tried to ignore the fact that I was subconsciously being weighed down by a mountain of unresolved clutter. It seemed benign enough, but it nagged at me in the most subtle way for all that time.
