We’ve all done it – allowed ourselves to be distracted by email rather than getting busy with the task at hand. Email, while often productive and important, can steal time in the most creative ways. Try these techniques, and encourage your colleagues to do the same. Note: This article can be used as the topic [...]
Tags: distractions, email, focus, overwhelm, Productivity, time
Lurking all around you at home, at work, and everywhere in between, there are tasks, situations, technology, humans (and other mammals) who can potentially steal your time. Be on the lookout for the time thieves that are ready to rob you if you let your guard down. Email -Ouch! There is a reason this one [...]
Tags: email, email management, time management
For the following tips, the ideas will work for most all programs, although the keystrokes are MS Outlook. Remember to print out this post so you have it for easy reference. We have covered a lot in regards to tackling your email. Lets talk about some more that you can do to get that email under [...]
Tags: email, email management, email tips
For the following tips, the ideas will work for most all programs, although the keystrokes are MS Outlook. Remember to print out this post so you have it for easy reference. In recent posts, we discussed: * Setting aside “Cleaning up/clearing out” time for this project. * The importance of making a “Deleted Items” folder and [...]
Tags: cleaning up email, email, email tips
In a previous post, I talked about the need to “deal with” some of the emails in your email backlog. Here’s what “deal with it” means (and these are the only 5 choices for what you need to do with that email): 1. Delete it! Delete it if it is: trash has nothing to do [...]
Tags: email, email backlog, email management
Here are specific ideas for dealing with the more current backlog of emails in your inbox. For some of you, the backlog is a month or less. Whatever it is, consider implementing the following: Set aside a specific amount of time each day to deal with processing and with gradually eliminating the “backlog.” If you have [...]
Tags: email, email backlog, email management
We’ve all done it – allowed ourselves to be distracted by email rather than getting busy with the task at hand. Email, while often productive and important, can steal time in the most creative ways. Try these techniques, and encourage your colleagues to do the same. (Note: This email can be used as the topic [...]
Tags: email, email management
We’ve all done it – allowed ourselves to be distracted by email rather than getting busy with the task at hand. Email, while often productive and important, can steal time in the most creative ways. Try these techniques, and encourage your colleagues to do the same. (Note: This email can be used as the topic [...]
Tags: email, email management
Book Recommendations – Email Hurst, Mark. Bit Literacy: Productivity in the Age of Information and E-mail Overload. I have been buying this book in large quantities and have now used it in several workshops and have given it to many of my consulting clients. Not only do I love the way this guy writes (he’s very [...]
Tags: Bit Literacy, book review, email, email management, Mark Hurst
Jensen, Bill. The Simplicity Survival Handbook: 32 Ways to Accomplish Less and More. Are you kidding me? How could I not buy this book? And, I loved it even though I disagreed with portions of it. I gained a number of very useable ideas and appreciate the author’s irreverent style. He is pushing hard to [...]
Tags: Bill Jensen, email, email management, email simplicity, simplicity
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