Life Of E's

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 [...]

Tags: email, email tips

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 following time thieves: Email Telephone Drop-in visitors Procrastination Self-distraction Filing systems that aren’t Energy suckers (which might include gossip or other negative [...]

Tags: efficiency, email, social media, time thieves

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 [...]

Tags: email, email inbox, email tips

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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Morgenstern, Julie. Never Check E-Mail in the Morning (And Other Unexpected Strategies for Making Your Work Life Work). Morgenstern originally published this book under the title: Making Work Work, and then realized that the provocative phrase “Never Check Email in the Morning” would make her book fly off the shelves. It should fly off the [...]

Tags: email, email management, Julie Morgenstern

  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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Keep your email OFF for long periods of time each day.  And note:  This is not an anti-email post.  It is a pro-productivity approach.  We have all ignored priorities while we fiddled away your day…on distractions such as email.  Believe me, I know this because I’ve done it myself (more than once!!) Let this post enhance your [...]

Tags: email, priorities, Productivity, time, timer

Here’s a link to Ali’s excellent tips about being more productive and efficient by ‘batching’ tasks.  I concur completely! http://www.alibrown.com/content/batch-tasks-boost-efficiency We can all do this!

Tags: Alexandria Brown, batch tasks, efficiency, email

Hold on to your hats. Here’s a pronouncement that flies in the face of what has become common practice – and if you do this, your peaceful productivity will increase immediately. Are you ready. Here it is: Keep your email OFF for long periods of time each day. Yes, that’s what I said – and [...]

Tags: batch, email, productive, Productivity

  In addition to the ASAR folder discussed in yesterday’s post, another one to help keep your inbox unclogged is “Waiting For” – and you use it for any email that you are not yet finished with because it has at least one more action associated with it, but you can’t go further with the [...]

Tags: action, email, Productivity, time, waiting for response