Here are some ideas for keeping email chaos at bay: (Note: the ideas will work for all programs, although the keystrokes are MS Outlook). Go to your main Inbox. You may only have a few items in there, so you can ignore this, but others reading this have hundreds or thousands of items in the main [...]
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Here are some ways to keep email chaos at bay. Note: the ideas will work for all programs, although the keystrokes are MS Outlook. Understand that “cleaning up/clearing out” time needs to be set aside, in the same way that you set aside time to “clean up/clear out” your office. Look in your calendar now and set [...]
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Heavens to Betsy! Email can cause chaos and can help us resolve some chaos. I hear this in my workshops and in conversations and I live with it myself. Here’s a few ideas related to email and Keys to Keeping Your Email Chaos at Bay. Stop email ping-pong (also known as “boomerang email”). Have a “throwaway” [...]
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Goodness, gracious–email can cause chaos and can help us resolve some chaos. I hear this in my workshops and in conversations and I live with it myself. Here are a few ideas related to email and Keys to Keeping Your Email Chaos at Bay. Open your email a specified number of times each day (vs. having [...]
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I am not sure what your email backlog is, but here are two possibilities: Unread emails which show up as “bold” to indicate they are all unread. Emails that are all “read” but you haven’t processed them. This post is to give you specific ideas for dealing with the more current backlog of emails [...]
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