Does your email inbox have a lot of emails just sitting in it? Mine does. Why? There are 400 messages in there right now. It's really gotten the best of me lately and I've been giving some thought as to WHY. I've read these email, now why are they still in the inbox? One good reason is the email system I am using does not have folder system. I am not pleased with that. I consulted my husband and now I have gone from a web based email system to a mail client system. What does that mean? My email is now being downloaded into Outlook Express. I am really pleased with it! I can create a lot of folders with it if I want. I organized it and flung out all of the trash.
I took it a step further. This is my personal email system. Remember I just recently read David Bach's Smart Couples Finish Rich? If you haven't read that post, click here to read it. Now David Bach asks each couple to determine what 5 values are important to each of them....ones that they want to work on over the next 12 months. Well, I completed that task. I have my 5 values and I applied them to my email system as well! It's another reminder of what is important to me and what my values are. It's much easier to determine what to do with an email if it doesn't fit in ANY of my categories! So I have 5 mail folders and some sub folders. One of my values is marriage & family. I finally have a subfolder under there that is labeled - Pictures! I've never had a folder for them before and they are important to me. I'd have to search through all of my emails to find a picture I was looking for! Now they are all safely in one organized location. Another sub folder under marriage & family is Christmas 2007. I've never had this folder before either. I love it! All of the Christmas lists for family members are now in our location too! No more searching through all of the emails to go shopping!
If you already have a system in place that you are using, kudos to you! Consider adopting the values system to your folders. =)
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Sunday, December 16, 2007
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
So Many Gadgets, So Little Time........
There are so many gadgets in our society these days. It is amazing! I jumped on the internet. I love email and the internet! I love being able to keep in touch with old friends and far away friends in email! I also love the resource the internet is....to be able to jump on and "google" something, even back when you just did a seach - before it was "goggle-ing" or is it "googling?" (That second one didn't look right, that's why I made up the first one.) I love having the information I was searching for in minutes.
Now I stayed away when the cell phones came out. Eventually my mother-in-law purchased a TracFone for me. You buy the minutes as you go along. She felt as a mother with 2 small children that I needed one. I use it for emergencies or on the rare occassion that I am away from the kids to check home. Didn't Moms survive for many years without cell phones? Didn't all of our children too? It is convenient though when I am away from home.
I don't give out my TracFone number nor do I have the voice mail set up. This drives my Dad crazy! I tell him though, I just use it for emergencies. So, it's never on unless I am away from the kids, which isn't too often.
When cell phones became popular and people purchased them to keep in their pockets or on their belt, I thought they were annoying. People would take them with them everywhere they went. They were always ringing, always an interruption. I would see and hear people use them everywhere at the grocery store, on the streets, in other stores, on the beach, etc. I never wanted to be attached to one. I don't want to be found. I want to be able to go to the beach with the kids and get lost for the day.
I have noticed now that the cell phone use seems more controlled. Or people are exercising their options. You can put it on vibrate or turn it off. They have voice mail and someone can leave a message. Then you can check it at your convenience.
There are so many gadgets out there these days - Blackberries and IPhones too. Don't forget the IPods, which I really just call the new age walkman. =) Of course I know it can do more than our walkmans did and it has some great features. I don't own one though.
Of course, there are so many gadgets, you really just chose a few that work for you and your lifestyle! There are all available and options we have, you don't have to have them all or use them all either. Just pick the ones if needed that fit your lifestyle! Keep it simple!
Now I stayed away when the cell phones came out. Eventually my mother-in-law purchased a TracFone for me. You buy the minutes as you go along. She felt as a mother with 2 small children that I needed one. I use it for emergencies or on the rare occassion that I am away from the kids to check home. Didn't Moms survive for many years without cell phones? Didn't all of our children too? It is convenient though when I am away from home.
I don't give out my TracFone number nor do I have the voice mail set up. This drives my Dad crazy! I tell him though, I just use it for emergencies. So, it's never on unless I am away from the kids, which isn't too often.
When cell phones became popular and people purchased them to keep in their pockets or on their belt, I thought they were annoying. People would take them with them everywhere they went. They were always ringing, always an interruption. I would see and hear people use them everywhere at the grocery store, on the streets, in other stores, on the beach, etc. I never wanted to be attached to one. I don't want to be found. I want to be able to go to the beach with the kids and get lost for the day.
I have noticed now that the cell phone use seems more controlled. Or people are exercising their options. You can put it on vibrate or turn it off. They have voice mail and someone can leave a message. Then you can check it at your convenience.
There are so many gadgets out there these days - Blackberries and IPhones too. Don't forget the IPods, which I really just call the new age walkman. =) Of course I know it can do more than our walkmans did and it has some great features. I don't own one though.
Of course, there are so many gadgets, you really just chose a few that work for you and your lifestyle! There are all available and options we have, you don't have to have them all or use them all either. Just pick the ones if needed that fit your lifestyle! Keep it simple!
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