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Get Out of Your Inbox and Get to Work
Rather than checking your inbox for the 57th time today, check your to-do list and determine what you should be doing.
Your email is distractions and other people’s priorities. Your to-do list is your list of prioritized tasks.
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- Instead of checking your email endlessly, limit the number of times you check your inbox.
- 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.
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Create the following 2 folders:
- Require Action besides simply responding.
- Require Response. File emails here that you are unable to respond to immediately.
All other emails, once read, should go directly to their appropriate permanent files usi...
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Ask yourself:
- What’s the meaning and the value of the message?
- What action does this message require of me?
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- Studies show that employees spend more than five hours per day reading and replying to emails. While it may seem like urgent work, email is not the best kind of work.
- The open office culture in many big and small companies is not conducive to achieving the...
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