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    Take Charge of Your Email Inbox
    Take Charge of Your Email Inbox
    Take Charge of Your Email Inbox
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    Take Charge of Your Email Inbox

    By Bonnie Hillman Shay

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    Learn how to regain control and transform your inbox to make it work for you.

    Email has become a full-time challenge to manage, both personally and professionally. People have become inundated with the quantity of emails that find their way into their inboxes, and before they know it, 3,000 emails have taken up residence there. As a result, they become overwhelmed, stuck, and dont know what to do. Are you one of these people?

    Understand how our inboxes got cluttered. Create your personal vision of how life will be with an uncluttered inbox. De-clutter your inbox. Develop habits to maintain your new-and-improved inbox.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateApr 29, 2014
    ISBN9781491731741
    Take Charge of Your Email Inbox
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    Bonnie Hillman Shay

    Bonnie Hillman Shay is a Professional Organizer and founder of Mariposa Creative Solutions. In addition to email management, she also specializes in residential (any room/area in the house) and photo organizing (printed and digital). Whatever shape it takes, Bonnie makes order out of disorder. She gets her clients unstuck allowing them to return to what they are passionate about (which usually isn’t organizing). Bonnie is a member of NAPO (National Association of Professional Organizers) and on the board of NAPO-Chicago. She is also a certified Personal Photo Organizer and a member of APPO (Association of Personal Photo Organizers). Besides writing books and her monthly newsletter, Bonnie shares her wisdom and expertise with live audiences, teleseminars, and webinars.

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      Take Charge of Your Email Inbox - Bonnie Hillman Shay

      Take Charge of

      Your Email Inbox

      BONNIE HILLMAN SHAY

      iUniverse LLC

      Bloomington

      TAKE CHARGE OF YOUR EMAIL INBOX

      Copyright © 2014 Bonnie Hillman Shay.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by

      any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying,

      recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system

      without the written permission of the publisher except in the case

      of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      iUniverse books may be ordered through booksellers or by contacting:

      iUniverse LLC

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      may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those

      of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher,

      and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are

      models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      ISBN: 978-1-4917-3173-4 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4917-3174-1 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2014906740

      iUniverse rev. date: 04/24/2014

      CONTENTS

      INTRODUCTION

       CHAPTER ONE

      How We All Got to Having Unmanageable Email Inboxes

       CHAPTER TWO

      Why Do You Want to Improve Your Email Management?: Your Personal Vision

       CHAPTER THREE

      Our Goals and Our Guiding Principles

       CHAPTER FOUR

      Five Steps to De-cluttering Your Email Inbox

       CHAPTER FIVE

      Managing Your Email on a Daily Basis

       CHAPTER SIX

      Email Management 201

       CHAPTER SEVEN

      Maintenance Habits Going Forward

       CONCLUSION 

       ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 

       ABOUT THE AUTHOR 

      LIST OF FIGURES

      Figure 1: Sample File Structures

      SAMPLE #1: Business and Personal

      SAMPLE #2: Personal Only

      SAMPLE #3: Business Only

      Figure 2: Flow Charts for De-cluttering Your Inbox

      Figure 3: Flow Charts for Daily Email Management

      INTRODUCTION

      Hi Bonnie,

      I just wanted to say a big thank-you for your very helpful tips on eliminating and cleaning up my emails in my inbox.

      OMG girl—you would not believe what I’ve been finding.  As an example, I searched my inbox for all the groupon emails in there.  Guess how many were sitting in my inbox—mostly unread—1197—again, OMG. Boy, did I take the time to delete all of those emails—I never realized I was getting 2 and 3 groupon emails a day for years! But, no more, and I will unsubscribe from them.

      So I thank you and my computer thanks you! Wonder what else is cluttering up my space??

      Cathy C.

      Email has become a full-time challenge to manage, both personally and

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