I’m not an Inbox Zero guy and think it’s a massive waste of time.
But this approach from JA Westenberg caught my eye.
An excerpt:
Every day, I do my best to reply to the emails I can.
When the last day of the month arrives, I delete everything still sitting in my inbox. If a message matters, it’ll find its way back. If it vanishes, that’s often the truer measure of its value.
It’s inbox zero, but not as the founding fathers intended.
I have to admit an inbox full of unanswered emails is annoying (at best) and while there’s nothing wrong with ignoring some of them, there is value to wiping them off the face of the Earth.
Because everything we allow in our environment pulls on our attention.
So I like the idea of wiping the slate clean every once in a while.
This system would also pair nicely with my Monthly Day approach I’ve used for the past few years.
Long story short, every month I set aside one day to do a month’s worth of recurring tasks.
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