Wednesday, January 11, 2017
Want to be more productive with your inbox? Treat your email inbox like you do a physical mailbox.
Most people pick up all their postal mail, throw half of it away and put the rest in piles. they SORT their incoming mail. What they don’t do is leave their unread mail in the mailbox day after day. Or read it and put it back to read the next day.
They don’t WORK it all at once. They triage it.
Develop the process and habit of processing email daily (which means SORTING and setting reminders) and getting to a point where the inbox is empty at the end of each day. And maybe even every time you visit that inbox…
Why it Works:
By treating your inbox as a digital delivery tool, just as your postal mailbox is a physical mail delivery tool, and disciplining yourself to check for mail less frequently, you develop the productivity advantage of grouping like tasks. Additionally when you adopt the habit of not leaving each message in that inbox (or mailbox) it helps you make a decision as to each message.
This and 99 other email productivity tips is included in our Email Productivity Gems: 100 Points to 100 Precious More Hours resource, which will be available on January 23rd. To join the conversation, and to view our upcoming three free tip filled videos, click here.
About Marsha Egan, CPCU, CSP, PCC, ICF-Certified CoachMarsha Egan, is CEO of the Egan Group, Inc., Nantucket MA and an internationally recognized professional speaker. She is a leading authority on email productivity. Her acclaimed ?12 Step Program for E-Mail E-ddiction? received international attention, being featured on ABC Nightly News, Fox News, and newspapers across the globe. In early 2009, the program was adapted into a book, Inbox Detox and the Habit of E-mail Excellence (Acanthus 2009 - http://InboxDetox.com/book) Marsha works with forward-thinking organizations that want to create a profit-rich and productive email culture. Marsha was named one of Pennsylvania?s Top 50 Women in Business in 2006.