1. Clean Out Your Inbox Daily
The best way to avoid email overwhelm is to clean out your inbox daily. The only emails that should be in your inbox are those emails that are pending action.
2. Delete, delete, delete
When you receive junk mail, advertisements or duplicate information… delete them. If you have emails that have nothing to do with you, are trash or not worth your time…delete them.
3. Take Action
When you receive an email that will take 2 minutes or less to deal with, than take the necessary action immediately. Then delete or file the email.
4. File It
If you need the email for reference in the future and this information is not available anywhere else, than file it in an email folder. Be sure that the folders you set up are easy to understand so you can find the email later when you need it.
5. Clear Out Email Backlog
If you have 3,000 emails in your inbox, then start taking the steps to clear out the backlog. Start with the most recent emails first and work your way back. Each day spend 15 minutes working on this project until it is completed.
6. Create a Junk Email
Use this email address to order things online or sign into random websites. Once this email address starts to get overloaded with spam, you can shut it down and create another junk email address. This will help contain the junk email so it won’t take over your real email.
About Melissa:
Melissa Stacey started Feeling Organized because she truly loves organizing and planning. She says, “I also love working with people to find creative solutions to their organizing problems. I named my company Feeling Organized because the key to organization is how YOU feel. When you feel organized, you have less stress, are more productive and have more time to do the things that you love.”
Contact Melissa:
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I can’t believe that it is Thanksgiving! The holidays truly snuck up on me this year and I have to say…I was feeling a bit overwhelmed because of it. But I made my gift lists and got my calendar in order, so I am feeling much better now. Plus the weather has finally cooled down here in Northern CA, so it actually feels like November. 
With October comes the start of the holiday season. For many people this is a time when, if you’re not careful, budgets, exercise, healthy eating & overall life-balance can all too easily get…well… out of balance.
Card List: 
Gift List:
Food List: 
During the organizing process, one of the questions I get asked the most is, “do I need to keep this?” We generally have such an abundance of stuff that we oftentimes don’t even know what all we have anymore. We’ve just accumulated it and now don’t know what to do with it. Deciding what needs to stay and what needs to go can be daunting. The question to ask yourself as you are faced with items you own and don’t know what to do with is, “
& shoes and let go of any items you no longer need or wear. Give these clothes away to friends and family or donate them to a charity. 
Getting organized is all about being prepared. What’s great is that when you plan ahead and break things down tasks into manageable chunks, you not only get everything done with greater ease but you can actually enjoy what you do as you are doing it.
