Getting Back To Work: Triage Your Inbox

First, stop checking your e-mails, and start processing them. You want to get emails out of your inbox qs soon as possible. To process emails efficiently, remember the three d’s: if you can deal with it, delete it, or delegate it in less than two minutes, then do it! 

For Emails that demand...

1. Instead of checking your email endlessly, limit the number of times you check your inbox. 
2. Get things out of your email and onto your to-do list: If an email requires action beyond a response, then add that task to your to-do list where it belongs.
3. Don’t read...

• Focus on what's genuinely important in a day and do that, before checking your email.
• Check the email in time blocks, like once every 3 to 4 hours.
• Discard all impersonal unnecessary emails.
• Briefly answer messages that require an instant response.
• Use su...