Between today and tomorrow, you might receive five emails. Or fifty. Or a hundred.

The total number isn’t significant.

What’s important is this: how many of those emails are relevant? How many are truly important? How many require action on your part?

Seeing a large number of unread messages can cause immediate stress.

But often, there’s a lot of noise mixed in with the few things that are consequential.

And that tends to be true for a lot of things in life.

The challenge is not letting the noise run the show.