Getting to inbox zero every day is more than just a simple email management task; it has several psychological benefits that can greatly improve your overall well-being and productivity. By reaching inbox zero every day, you can:

1. Maintain motivation: Reaching inbox zero every day can help you maintain your motivation and enthusiasm for email management, making it easier to sustain the habit over time.
2. Reduced Stress: An overflowing inbox can cause stress and anxiety, but having an empty inbox every day can help reduce that stress and allow you to focus on other tasks.
3. Improved Focus: When your inbox is empty, you can focus on the tasks at hand without being distracted by incoming emails.
4. Increased Sense of Control: By processing emails and getting to inbox zero, you are taking control of your inbox and demonstrating mastery over your email communication. This can help you feel more in control and less overwhelmed.
5. Better Time Management: By processing emails daily, you can ensure...

For many, managing an inbox is an agonizing Sisyphean task - or at least unpleasant and inefficient. But really, it's quite simple, and can be enormously efficient if you embrace three important concepts.

Before we get to those concepts, however, let's understand why you might reject the thesis that managing email could be simple. Nearly anyone reading this would immediately react with: Maybe for you, but you have no idea about the complexity and sheer number of emails I receive.  

And I would say, Ah, but after 15 years devoted to understanding email management as seen from those on the front lines of battle, and having worked with thousands of users form every company size and vertical imaginable, I have the qualifications to say, I do understand your situation.

Here's the thing, I agree that your work (decision making) may be complex: i.e. competing priorities and urgencies, intricate dependencies, never mind the strategic ways to request or submit responses is indeed...

Do you receive a lot of non-core business email that you don’t consider spam? Email that falls into the gray space of not very important, but you want to keep anyway. Then Inbox480 is for you. It’s similar to Focus, but also quite different in that it gives you a lot more control over which emails are filtered, it doesn’t share the content of your emails with Microsoft, and it also cleans up after itself, so you don’t need to do regular purges. Check it out here.

Here is a link to find out more about LeanMail and to register for our Free LeanMail introductory workshop.

Michael Hoffman

One thing is certain these days, and that is: nothing is certain.

Yes. I apologize for the cliché, but this is how most of are feeling, so why not be out with it?

With all the amazing technology we have for peering into the future, times are more perilous than ever. The inclination we all feel when the world is spinning too fast is to jump off in order to attempt to regain our balance.

Anything else would be counterintuitive.

And yet, just as our parents didn't lock us away in a closet when our mischief arose beyond their boiling points (one hopes!), we too must keep calm and not re-act.

I hyphenate re-act to put emphasis on the prefix "re" to point out that a re-action has very little choice involved. One action precipitates another without much consternation.

Let's face it, the first thing we think of when sales are down is cutting costs. I don't know how many times I've heard leaders repeat the phrase: We're cutting out everything that is not essential for the rest of...