Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Contacting friends to stay in touch regularly

Keeping in touch with all your old friends seems like a daunting affair. However, with this week’s tip from eoe, you can set up a rotation to contact your friends with just an email per week!

I have friends all over the world and it’s hard to keep up. I don’t use Facebook and like to write emails to them (emails are the new snail mail!), but often procrastinate or don’t remember who I contacted recently and who I haven’t contacted in 3 years.

I made a list, “Contacts”, where I list all the people I want to stay in touch with. Each person gets a start date of a Saturday, and each time I write I cycle them to the end of the list. An example is easier to follow:

• Bob - Start Date: Saturday, August 31st
• Jane - Start Date: Saturday, September 7th
• Larry - Start Date: Saturday, September 14th
• …

After I write Bob, I make his Start Date: Sept 21st

I love this for 2 main reasons:

1. Having only 1 pop up every week makes it easier to tackle
2. I make sure I keep in touch with everyone equally

The one eye-opening thing I discovered when I did this is that if I contact 1 friend every week, I only contact them twice a year! This gives me more motivation to write them since it’s so easy to lose touch for years.

The bonus is the emails you get back!

Thanks for sharing this tip, eoe! You’re our Tips & Tricks Tuesday winner this week.

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