Re-Start Your New Year’s Resolution - it’s only February!
I had the initiative to clean out my inbox after the new year started. I was fed up with subscriptions that I’d spent more time deleting from my inbox, or scrolling past, rather than reading them. Upon taking inventory I realized there were over 30 unread subscriptions each week, flooding my inbox. Mind you, I had good intentions to read these when I signed up for them in the first place, but honestly, I never actually took the time to look them over.
The coupons, the sales, Gwyneth Paltrow’s lastest from Goop, exercise tips, an easy dish to cook tonight. There was much guilt to work through, removing myself from these list was my much needed step. What was I going to do without them all? But the reality was, I had never been resourcing these articles on a regular basis. It was just a Bold Title in my inbox each week. Easier to scan on by and never open. Each one of those intentions glared back on my memory, as I started to remove myself from most of the subscriptions.
Letting go is a resolution I came up with after this experiment. To quit holding on to the intentions that I put into my clothes, papers, books, junk in my garage and even more emails in my inbox. When I’m ready for information or things, I’ll go looking for it. I’m putting my foot down, and not letting the stuff control me. Same thing can be said for my magazines, but that’s possibly 2013’s resolution.
Check out this article about “Clean Out Your Inbox Week” here by Jen Weigel.
Happy Organizing!
