Life Of E's

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!!)
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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 action [...]

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

The main idea for you to keep in mind is that you are consciously and very deliberately DECIDING to DEFER. So, now, here’s the question. What do you do with those emails that you’ve deferred?
What most people do, unfortunately, is leave them in their inbox, which is a poor solution. These emails just pile [...]

Tags: action, email, inbox, overwhelm, Productivity

Let’s talk about the notion of DEFER as a sane and sensible email practice. What does ‘defer’ mean? First of all, defer does not mean procrastinate. To defer something is a deliberate decision that you make. As far as email is concerned, you could decide to defer an email for several reasons, such as:

You [...]

Tags: ASAR, backlog, defer, email, inbox, WF

In the same way that ants, termites, roaches, or any other bugs will come into your house (or office) uninvited, in essence email does the same thing. I think you will agree that it would be highly annoying and unacceptable for a person to be hanging around all the time, asking questions, reminding you of [...]

Tags: defend, defense, email, encroachment

Many folks are just not sane and sensible about their email – and it ends up controlling them instead of them controlling it!  Here is one important sane and sensible suggestion:
DETERMINE when you will check and respond to email.  If you are like the average professional today – and you put this notion into practice, [...]

Tags: access, decide, determine, email, timers

Shipley, David & Schwalbe, Will.  SEND:  The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home.
Much of what’s in this book is common sense…at least one would think so.  However, it clearly ISN’T common sense or common practice at this point.  Read this book and buy some for friends and colleagues, too. 
If you love having [...]

Tags: book recommendation, David Shipley, email, Will Schwalbe

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 [...]

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