Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: Good Morning, This is Laura, Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Speaker 1: Today's tip is to take a few minutes to unsubscribe
Speaker 1: from whatever you don't want coming into your life. While
Speaker 1: deleting doesn't take much time, and there are email programs
Speaker 1: that can help with this automatically, it's still good to
Speaker 1: take stock of whether you want or use what's coming in,
Speaker 1: so email can feel a lot less overwhelming. I should
Speaker 1: start this episode by saying that I love email marketing.
Speaker 1: I send a weekly and monthly newsletter, and I found
Speaker 1: that it's a great way to keep in touch with
Speaker 1: an audience. But life changes. Even a newsletter or discussion
Speaker 1: group that you signed up for and bump to your
Speaker 1: primary inbox maybe no longer fits your circumstances, or maybe
Speaker 1: the emails come too frequently, or perhaps you love a
Speaker 1: retailer but you're trying to cut down on your spending.
Speaker 1: The issue with all this is that it tends to
Speaker 1: take a little bit of time to unsubscribe, not much
Speaker 1: at all, but sometime, and it takes almost no time
Speaker 1: to delete. So whenever the unwanted email appears and we're
Speaker 1: busy we make the easier choice. To break this habit,
Speaker 1: you need a designated chunk of time for unsubscribing, So
Speaker 1: how about today, carve out ten minutes to address what
Speaker 1: you can, let the emails stack up through the day,
Speaker 1: and then go in and follow the unsubscribed links for
Speaker 1: anything you're not excited about anymore, or that you've caught
Speaker 1: yourself deleting more times than you've opened up. If you
Speaker 1: no longer follow an email based discussion group, take this
Speaker 1: time to write the moderator and get yourself removed. There's
Speaker 1: no need to pen and novel about it. Just say
Speaker 1: that you appreciate the moderator's work, you've not been able
Speaker 1: to be an active participant, and you'd like to exit
Speaker 1: the group. If you have paid subscriptions, take a few
Speaker 1: minutes to evaluate what you're getting out of the deal
Speaker 1: and whether it's still worth it, and then possibly set
Speaker 1: up another email address for promotions so any new advertising
Speaker 1: goes there and not to your primary inbox. If you
Speaker 1: don't have an email program that automatically does this for you,
Speaker 1: we'll talk later this week about paper subscriptions, but we
Speaker 1: spend a lot of time in our inboxes. The problem
Speaker 1: with notes we don't read. Is that they make emails
Speaker 1: seem more overwhelming, and they also trick us into checking
Speaker 1: our inboxes more frequently. If we know something new will
Speaker 1: always be there, or we see the number on the
Speaker 1: email icon going up, it is so tempting to go
Speaker 1: take a look, even if it's only stuff we don't
Speaker 1: really want. But the cause of time management is seldom
Speaker 1: helped by spending more time on email. So take just
Speaker 1: a little bit of time today to lighten the load.
Speaker 1: In the meantime, This is Laura. Thanks for listening, and
Speaker 1: here's to making the most of our time. Hey everybody,
Speaker 1: I'd love to hear from you. You can send me
Speaker 1: your tips, your questions, or anything else. Just connect with
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