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Christopher S. Penn's Awaken Your Superhero
Christopher S. Penn's Awaken Your Superhero
I get a lot of email. When I came back from vacation this morning, I faced hundreds and hundreds of emails, from status reports to pitches and everything in between. How did I whittle this down to something manageable?
When I face a lot of email on the desktop client, there are a lot of choices [...]
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10 months ago
The folks I know who have perpetually-overstuffed inboxes tend to get bogged down in thinking of Big Answers to everything, instead of getting things triaged quick-and-dirty.
10 months ago
9 months ago
Brian Tracy (famous get what you want type guy) talks about only ever handling a piece of paper once. Do something with it once only. The same should apply to email.
I always look an email and think, if I did nothing with this, would it matter. If the answer is no (it would not matter). I delete it.
And short, curt answers are often better.
Don't forget about not checking email 1000 times a day either, why not just check it once an hour or something like that.
Like I could do that though. lol