Posted by Lisa Hochgraf
This Sunday I kicked back a litte, "watched" some football I didn't care much about (for those who do care, it was San Diego @ Pittsburgh), and put my new Mac laptop in my lap. (Thank you, Santa!)
I took great pleasure in using this little bit of down time to unsubscribe. Since I was out for two weeks over Christmas, I had a ton of e-mail to sort and as part of dealing with it all, I took myself off many a mailing list. It felt really good just in the doing.
And then yesterday and just this morning, my e-mail wasn't so clogged with stuff I wasn't going to read anyway. I felt like I could focus more on the things that really needed to be addressed. (Good thing too, since I was officially off as my child recovered from a fever, but I also wanted to juggle working on CUES' magazine, which was going to press.)
I'm not saying I won't later resubscribe to any of those same e-newsletters and services, but it was time to send out some of the old to make room for a new mix.
What can credit unions do to simplify 2009? Is there anything they can stop doing, at least for a time, to allow them to focus on what's truly important?
