Receive Fewer Emails
- Unsubscribe: from anything you don’t need, such as newsletters, groups, mailing lists, and notifications.
- Send fewer emails: to get less email, send less.
- Be succinct: Reply to every email in three sentences or less
- Respond with statements: don’t reply “Maybe 10 or 11 am, what do you think?” to schedule a meeting time, be assertive “10 am.”
- Get Personal: sometimes it’s easier to call or talk face-to-face.
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