Several years ago my computer gave up the ghost & I lost 9 years of email with about 100 unanswered - I grieved Then I visited Sudan and saw how they mostly lived existential priorities - mine was a self-imposed grief Now I ruthlessly clear my inbox 📥 every chance I get

Thank you for this. I would love to read anything you write about this period of time. We don't talk about the other realities which coexist with grief. I'm so sorry that you lost them both so quickly. And thank you for sharing about your email. It is liberating & comforting to hear of both your choice & the outcome.

This is the inspirational content the internet needs.

Yes! Normalize this! I started two years ago, after a rare vacation, purging my inbox, but since I worry about deleting something critical I’ll need later, I create a folder called “inbox zero 3.13.26,” for example, and move everything from my inbox into that. I do NOT go back and clean that purge folder, but the emails are all there if I want to/need to find them. The relief of starting a new week after a vacation at inbox zero CANNOT be stressed enough! ❤️

I’m terrified of needing an old email, because several times a year, I do. I wonder if I could just bulk archive 😂

I love this. I own a small business and sometimes I physically cannot possibly in any reasonable way shape or time answer everyone properly.

I did that one time too. Literally just deleted all and figured whatever was important was bound to be re-sent.

THIS! If someone really needs you, they will try again. Anything else is unnecessary. I'm sorry it was such a horrible time for you 😔

Yup it's called self-care! Sometimes you need to do what's best for you.And in the end , it benefits everyone!💞

I did need to hear that- Thanks

I hear you! What are you planning for holidays? I found it was really nice to spend extra time with my kids after both of my parents passed.

Sorry to hear about your parents dying, but that part about deleting the emails gives me a total sense of exhilaration.

Thank you for this brilliant idea and witness. Everything scares me, but hearing you didn’t experience “the end of the world” is encouraging.

That is how much junk mail we all get. Somehow because it’s in email form we think it needs our attention. It’s busy work. We would not tolerate getting that much unnecessary mail in the mail.

I do need to hear this

YES!!!!!