{"id":18781,"date":"2026-05-15T00:16:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T00:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=18781"},"modified":"2026-05-15T00:16:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T00:16:49","slug":"how-to-commit-wholesale-inbox-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/how-to-commit-wholesale-inbox-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"How to commit wholesale inbox genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The question of the hour:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cWhat is your 3-5 step process for reaching inbox zero? Obviously I have my way I would do it&#8230; but I&#8217;m curious how you would do it in a series of steps, assuming I have a shit ton in my inbox now and want to get to that inbox zero approach&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You know, Stefania once had 30,000 (something like that) emails in her inbox.<\/p>\n<p>And she asked me a similar question.<\/p>\n<p>My answer to her is the same I\u2019d give most (see caveat below) across the board:<\/p>\n<p>1. Click \u201cSelect all&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>2. Click \u201cdelete\u201d<\/p>\n<p>3. Only exception is something you have to address, etc<\/p>\n<p>4. After that begin each day with inbox zero<\/p>\n<p>5. In most cases, nearly every case I\u2019ve ever seen at least, if you\u2019re on a thread with multiple people, back and forthing, you can safely ignore it unless or until your name is specifically mentioned or you see it more than 3 times, then you might want to pay attention<\/p>\n<p>6. This is similar to how time savvy people treated the old corporate memos<\/p>\n<p>7. And it works<\/p>\n<p>8. The above all applies to open tabs, too<\/p>\n<p>9. There is a lot of freedom in mass email inbox genocide<\/p>\n<p>10. And once you do it, I suspect you\u2019ll never go back..<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, do the above at your own risk, of course.<\/p>\n<p>I mentioned a \u201ccaveat\u201d to all this.<\/p>\n<p>And that caveat is to do the above at your own risk.<\/p>\n<p>I have to say that because there are more and more people who are so hopelessly flakey, and so despicably undisciplined&#8230; that they probably should not take the above advice, as they probably really will just end up ignoring or deleting otherwise urgent, important, and maybe even life-saving info.<\/p>\n<p>Not sure where else I can take this topic.<\/p>\n<p>So I\u2019ll just end with this:<\/p>\n<p>If you haven\u2019t registered for my free mobile app, with 40 some hours of content inside, go here:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.BenSettle.com\/alt\"><strong>www.BenSettle.com\/alt<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The question of the hour: \u201cWhat is your 3-5 step process for reaching inbox zero? Obviously I have my way I would do it&#8230; but I&#8217;m curious how you would do it in a series of steps, assuming I have a shit ton in my inbox now and want to get to that inbox zero [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-business-building","category-inner-game"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18786,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18781\/revisions\/18786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}