y. We even have sophisticated software to help protect our accounts and to help us sort through what is “real” and what is “junk”, just like we used to do by hand years ago.

So, how much attention to we pay to our regular mail and our inboxes on a daily basis. Not much, I think. Not much at all. We have been so conditioned that the story gets worse. We have to

Remember being 10 years old again? Coming home from school and getting your first piece of mail. WOW! What a rush! "Someone sent me something!". What was it? Junk of course, but we did not know any better. We were so excited just to get something in "the mail". How cool was that. But, of course, reality sets in when we fast-forward 20 or more years. The mailman (or woman) comes by and delivers the mail and we have no excitement whatsoever. Mostly bills and junk mail every single day. Our minds sort through it in seconds. We are trained to not even open most of the junk, unless of course "they" try a new tactic to make something look like "real" mail. We may let one slip by, which really means that we open it and then throw it out. Our minds make adjustments as we struggle with what’s important and what’s not important in our lives.

This same trend has happened with our email inboxes. Some call it junk mail still, but we have coined a new term, “SPAM”. We all got our first email accounts over the past 10 years or so. Most of us have even more than one account now. I remember getting my first email account when I was an Undergraduate at Rutgers University. It really was a similar feeling to being 10 years old again. If I got ten emails in a week, that was a lot. Not because I had no friends, but because our generation could still communicate face-to-face. Now, we get so many spam emails everyday. Somehow all of our accounts get spammed eventually. We even have sophisticated software to help protect our accounts and to help us sort through what is “real” and what is “junk”, just like we used to do by hand years ago.

So, how much attention to we pay to our regular mail and our inboxes on a daily basis. Not much, I think. Not much at all. We have been so conditioned that the story gets worse. We have to g

(or woman) comes by and delivers the mail and we have no excitement whatsoever. Mostly bills and junk mail every single day. Our minds sort through it in seconds. We are trained to not even open most of the junk, unless of course "they" try a new tactic to make something look like "real" mail. We may let one slip by, which really means that we open it and then throw it out. Our minds make adjustments as we struggle with what’s important and what’s not important in our lives.

This same trend has happened with our email inboxes. Some call it junk mail still, but we have coined a new term, “SPAM”. We all got our first email accounts over the past 10 years or so. Most of us have even more than one account now. I remember getting my first email account when I was an Undergraduate at Rutgers University. It really was a similar feeling to being 10 years old again. If I got ten emails in a week, that was a lot. Not because I had no friends, but because our generation could still communicate face-to-face. Now, we get so many spam emails everyday. Somehow all of our accounts get spammed eventually. We even have sophisticated software to help protect our accounts and to help us sort through what is “real” and what is “junk”, just like we used to do by hand years ago.

So, how much attention to we pay to our regular mail and our inboxes on a daily basis. Not much, I think. Not much at all. We have been so conditioned that the story gets worse. We have to

t out. Our minds make adjustments as we struggle with what’s important and what’s not important in our lives.

This same trend has happened with our email inboxes. Some call it junk mail still, but we have coined a new term, “SPAM”. We all got our first email accounts over the past 10 years or so. Most of us have even more than one account now. I remember getting my first email account when I was an Undergraduate at Rutgers University. It really was a similar feeling to being 10 years old again. If I got ten emails in a week, that was a lot. Not because I had no friends, but because our generation could still communicate face-to-face. Now, we get so many spam emails everyday. Somehow all of our accounts get spammed eventually. We even have sophisticated software to help protect our accounts and to help us sort through what is “real” and what is “junk”, just like we used to do by hand years ago.

So, how much attention to we pay to our regular mail and our inboxes on a daily basis. Not much, I think. Not much at all. We have been so conditioned that the story gets worse. We have to

g my first email account when I was an Undergraduate at Rutgers University. It really was a similar feeling to being 10 years old again. If I got ten emails in a week, that was a lot. Not because I had no friends, but because our generation could still communicate face-to-face. Now, we get so many spam emails everyday. Somehow all of our accounts get spammed eventually. We even have sophisticated software to help protect our accounts and to help us sort through what is “real” and what is “junk”, just like we used to do by hand years ago.

So, how much attention to we pay to our regular mail and our inboxes on a daily basis. Not much, I think. Not much at all. We have been so conditioned that the story gets worse. We have to

y. We even have sophisticated software to help protect our accounts and to help us sort through what is “real” and what is “junk”, just like we used to do by hand years ago.

So, how much attention to we pay to our regular mail and our inboxes on a daily basis. Not much, I think. Not much at all. We have been so conditioned that the story gets worse. We have to get through so much more in our daily lives that we can’t waste time on worthless tasks. If our brains can recognize emails that don’t need as much attention, then we can save time. Saving time always helps out in our daily lives. Time and money drive our world. This trend has taken over our way of life so much that our email accounts have suffered. Email is such a powerful communication tool. But, too many emails from one source and our minds start to compartmentalize that source as something we need to get through quickly. It could even be your boss. If he or she sends too many emails all the time, we tend to skim them and not pay much attention to them. We snooze through them. Everyone has a friend that sends forwarded messages all the time. We barely even skim them anymore. So, what happens when that same person has something important to tell us? I hope we are paying attention. Our attention has been so lost, that now we have little icons attached to the emails to let us know it is important. The program I use has different colored exclamation points. Honestly, I don’t even see them anymore. That’s how my mind works, and yours does too, I know it. We’re all in this together.

So what’s next? I can’t see the future, so I am the wrong person to ask. All I know is that everyone is jostling for our time. Whether it’s our boss or the multitude of advertisements we see on TV, billboards, at entertainment events or in the newspaper, our time equals