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Ways to improve productivity
Strategies for reducing stress
Tips for managing email overload
Email can wait
Unless your job demands otherwise, deal with email at the end of the day.
Less energy at the end of the day makes you less tempted to overcommit to incoming requests.
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Schedule ‘email time’
With this strategy, you won’t waste time checking emails constantly throughout the day.
Instead, you’ll establish an end-of-day email routine. Research found that people who check their emails three times a day respond to the same amount of emails 20 percent faster than those who constantl...
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Respect your time off
Most workplaces have an unreasonable expectation that you’ll check email during your time off.
During your vacation, act as if you’re off the grid.
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Inbox zero can work
... if you’re just receiving several emails a day. Otherwise, strive to empty your inbox out once a week.
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Don’t rely on your willpower
For those with less restraint, consider an app that will prevent you from checking your email at unscheduled times.
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Change your mindset
There’s no reason to treat emails like they are emergencies.
Try responding as slowly as you can get away with, be it hours, days or even weeks. If something is truly important, let people know to call or text.
Eventually, this practice will reset expectations.
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Emails are like snail mail
You do not need to constantly check and respond to every new email message.
Treat email like an old-fashioned paper letter that gets sent once a day.
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Email Distractions
We don't change the world by looking at emails. It only diverts our attention. We usually spend 3-5 hours a day on email.
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Tips To Reduce Frequent Email Checks
- Check it at 11am and 4pm to make sure it isn’t the first thing you do (and get sucked into) and also so you have a clear inbox by the end of your day.
- If your to-do list is already overflowing, add email checking times to your calendar.
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