It’s estimated that 80% of the stuff we keep never gets looked at again once it’s been filed away.
That’s 80% folks!
Never. Looked. At. Again.
Our society has developed a mindset of KEEP – which translates to ‘keep everything.’ And because computer storage capacity has grown exponentially, we CAN keep stuff – forever!
So we keep it.
We keep because we can.
We keep because, well … you never know.
As a result, our email folders – and even our Inboxes – are overloaded because we’re storing useless and outdated information. And let me remind you … 80% will never get looked at again.
Try this …
Change your mindset from one of KEEP to DELETE.
Assume that every email (and even every paper or digital document) that comes to you will automatically be deleted once you’ve read/acted/deferred it.
Keep only the exceptional information.
Any message that you can bring yourself to delete is one less message to file, one less message to slow down your searches, one less message to fret about in the future.
Less is best.
Change your mindset. Keep less stuff. Find stuff quicker. Get more done.
