How, how oh how, dear viewer, can you ignore emails, feel good about it, and get more done? These are advanced email handling ninja tactics right here. Ignoring. I know it sounds silly, but really and truly, you’re going to get a lot of random crap with some good stuff sprinkled in there for good measure; but if an email is so far removed from anything that’s relevant to anything that you do, or you’re just too busy or you don’t think it’s worthy of a response, then you don’t have to.
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You can ignore it and it will go away. It really will. I know that sounds bad and you can’t do this for customers, or family, or really awesome requests from really awesome people, for really awesome things. But, a majority of email, especially if it revolves around point oh oh one percent representative sample of your entire customer base, or not even a paying customer just some random email that has nothing to do with anything that you do. It just happens to reference your name, then ignore.
I get a lot of requests for, you know, weird collaborations or usage requests for off (?) products or projects. For things that there is not even an easy way for me to share. And I can guarantee that ninety five percent of those I just don’t even reply because there’s nothing I can say.
I will spend more time trying to say how it just wont’ work, and quite frankly that’s not the data that I want to give. Because if I give someone, that’s passionate about seeking something I can’t give, they’re going to find a solution to it if I give them the problems that I foresee with it. And quite frankly a lot of the time I do a quick judgment and it doesn’t seem like it’s worth it.
Now, of course, this is just generic advice. You can’t just apply it blanketly but really, you do have to embrace strategic ignoring if you want to get through your email a whole lot better. Don’t look at it as a bad thing look at it as another tool in your tool box that you can use to get down to inbox zero or five emails by the end of the day.
You just gotta do it. The more emails you receive you’re going to start seeing this weird stuff, and quite frankly, most of the time you can turn a blind eye. Because it’s as if it’s not even there. And life gets a little bit easier.
Give it a shot. Seriously. You’ll get them. You’ll know what I’m talking about. Right now it may seem kind of (??) but you’ll get the ones. You’ll know. You’ll know. And then you just build that skill. Trust me.