Getting rid of email clutter can increase productivity. The thought of all those unanswered emails sitting in your inbox can play on your subconscious and be a constant source of distraction.

Its time to banish the clutter to free your mind and re-energize your spirit.

I have a number of emails accounts for various websites. I have them all forwarded to a gmail account. By the way, gmail is an excellent productivity tool if you haven’t already heard.

Gmail has a few great benefits including, awesome spam filter, free, 2+ GB of storage, search tool to easily recover emails and the archive so that you can easily remove emails from your inbox.

So how do I use gmail to keep organized?

Here are my four easy steps:

1. Create labels that work: (keep it simple) For example I use Letters To Answer, Todo, Articles of Interest, Uncategorized.
2. Take immediate action: after reading an email take immediate action, delete if necessary or respond if you need to.
3. Label and archive: The objective here is to remove the email from your inbox but please do not create clutter in your other folders so label the ones that you really need to get back to and archive.
4. Review your archives: Make a habit of reviewing your archives and addressing the things that you need to address so that you do not create clutter there to!

A final note, if you use Outlook you can also set up folders there in a similar manner.

CRG

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crystal

Crystal is the CEO and founder of Five Star Executives. She loves blogging, spending her free time with family and friends and she loves the Lord. She dedicates much of her time to Youth Ministry and writing inspirational posts on her devotional site Give Us Today. Join Crystal On Google+