Comments on: Zen Your Life Thursday: Inbox Makeover

By: Michelle

Michelle — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:32:30 +0000

Leonie, how about suggestions for a Zen Bookmark List in my web browser? I probably have hundreds of sites that I never use, and because I have so much clogging up the list I can never find the ones I do use, so I end up googling to find them anyway.

It’s probably going to be similar to the Zen Inbox suggestions, but having clear-cut steps make it so much easier.

By: Whitney

Whitney — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:30:46 +0000

This was amazing! I had over 100 pages of e-mails so I just put almost everything into my Archive folder. It’s all things I’m just hanging onto for information purposes, nothing I have to do about any of them. I also made a Needs a Reply folder ala JoVE. What a concept!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:53:40 +0000

Yay! I did it. It was much easier than I thought it would be too. I love it when things are easier than you expect. It makes the acomplishment so much bigger. Thanks for the challenge!

By: Laura

Laura — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:36:05 +0000

Goddess Leonie…I just have to begin by saying how much I adore you and your presence. Your blog, your meditations, your videos and your spirit has altered my life in such amazing ways…you have given me the space to really step into who I was meant to be. So thank you, thank you, thank you…big hugs to you.

Now, on to zennifying my life. I just completed the project of clearning out my inbox and surprisingly it feels light and freeing. What a wonderful suggestion. I can’t wait to clear more from my life, but will wait mostly for the creating your haven class to begin as I plan on signing up this weekend for it….I really look forward to more classes.

Much Love,
Laura

By: JoVE

JoVE — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:57:26 +0000

Great suggestions. Except that I then get stuck on archiving. And recently I’ve started being much harsher about what I keep and what I don’t. Sometimes you can answer and DELETE. Or read and DELETE.

I keep read e-mail in my inbox so I don’t have to remember where I might have filed something and can just search the inbox if I need stuff. But the unread stuff is at the top and your suggestions are a great way to deal with that.

I also recently created a separate folder called “Needs a reply” so I can put stuff I need to reply to but want to wait a bit in there and it won’t get lost in all the other stuff.

By: Kyeli

Kyeli — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:54:04 +0000

Wooooah, this was a hard one for me. I have six emails in my inbox that I WANT to reply to, but I don’t know what to say, so they just sit there and stare at me and generate guilt. Oy oy. I haven’t archived them yet, but I made myself a promise: if I don’t reply by Sunday night, I archive them. I feel good about that.

The rest of ‘em, I just ditched. (; Or responded to right away.

Thank you! This is so good! <3

By: lebe weise » Blog Archiv » Inbox Zero

lebe weise » Blog Archiv » Inbox Zero — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:45:10 +0000

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By: Patti B.

Patti B. — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:11:08 +0000

I needed these suggestions! I tend to hold onto all kinds of things much longer than I need to. Gmail
has a great system for archiving with labels that I use frequently. Lately I’ve been letting my inbox get the better of me. I’m just going to hunker down, archive what I really need, & delete the rest.

By: Goddess Leonie

Goddess Leonie — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 07:59:20 +0000

Goddess Liza ~ OMG! Yes! The Facebook notifications! Once I turned all of them off, I realised I totally didn’t need them… because I check Facebook at least once a day anyway, and I can check the notifications there

Goddess Bobbie ~ Awww… thank you sweetpea!

By: bobbie

bobbie — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 07:06:43 +0000

WONDERFUL advice!!!