Surviving an email tsunami: How to keep your head above water

As business people, we get hammered with emails all day every day without stop. Most if not all of us struggle to keep up with this constant flow of email. However, it is possible to keep up if you know how to properly manage your email. This article gives you a few tips that will help you keep your email in check. Now, if you're the person who absolutely loves to send, receive, forward, and re-forward emails, well, you might as well stop reading right now. The rest of you however, the ones who look at their inbox and shutter, you might find this useful.

Tips to survive an email tsunami

     - Prioritize - Leave the most important emails in your inbox. Put the rest in folders per their importance

     - Spend time wisely - Use your fresh morning energy on something creative, not on answering email

     - Get rid of the fluff - Unsubscribe from all the email subscriptions that you don't read

     - Don't get personal - You should maintain a personal email that is separate from your work email

     - Never read your spam - if it is spam just delete it and don't look back

     - Don't contribute to email overload - Just because you liked it doesn't mean everyone wants to read it too

     - Last but not least - DO Not engage in email wars! Remember what your mother told you, "if you can't say anything nice, then don't say anything at all"