900 unread emails

You have 900 unread emails in your inbox.

You’d love to reply to each and every one of them but there’s 900 of them!

Where do you even start?

900!

Inbox zero is so far away you feel likes it’s an impossible achievement.

Also 900 is not a static number, everyone else is not going to pause their correspondence whilst you work through your emails one by one. It’s 900 today. It could be 950 by tomorrow.

In order to reach inbox zero you’re going to have to read more emails then you receive everyday for potentially 6 months (at the rate of 5 a day).

But what if you selected all the unread emails and marked them all as read.

900 emails in one go.

Inbox zero achieved in just a few clicks.

Overwhelming feeling removed instantly.

If the issue is important enough they’ll send a follow up email or a slack message or call.

Being the person who never drops a ball or leaves an email go unanswered is causing you unnecessary stress and exacerbating the issue.

Because 900 emails didn’t happen all at once. Slowly overtime that inbox got out of hand.

So start afresh, it’s much easier to power through and reply to every email when there’s only 10 unread emails in your inbox.

When there’s 900 it’s too daunting and so you don’t even begin.