Email… Ding Ding Ding
“Ohhh email goodies.”-
typical thought process
Jacqueline Whitmore’s third observation is: Don’t Check Your Email
Right Away.
The worst thing you can do first thing in the morning is to do the least
productive thing. For most people
reading email is the least productive thing.
It is somewhat of a Pavlovian response that we have trained ourselves to
do. Maybe we need to un-train ourselves?
The way I handle this dilemma is to force myself not to be in the office
first thing in the morning. I will come
to the office and immediately leave to talk with different people I need to
follow up on items. This communication
often takes about one hour. During these
conversations I learn what is important to others and add things to my to-do
list.
By forcing myself to do something more productive, I eliminate the
temptation to immediately jump into the email reading session. Delay it allows me to prioritize better
because the demands made in the emails can be ranked alongside the ones
personally made to me. In the end there
are only so many minutes in a day that we have to spend towards work tasks.
Today’s question is:
“How do you tackle the
email beast?
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