DISQUS

Christopher S. Penn's Awaken Your Superhero: Try less choice for a productivity boost

  • TimWalker · 1 year ago
    This is a terrific idea -- quickly cuts the pile down to size.

    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.
  • Daniel Johnson, Jr. · 1 year ago
    I recently printed out GMail's keyboard shortcuts to help me better wade through my email. It has helped tremendously.
  • Max · 1 year ago
    Fully agree, do something with it, and move on.

    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
  • chelpixie · 4 months ago
    I never answer email on the go unless it's urgent, but I'm constantly culling what email comes in so there's less to deal with later.