Two Good Posts About Email
I wanted to call your attention to two good posts about email – specifically, how and why you should check it less.
First, the totally crush-worthy Erin Doland of Unclutterer urges you to Cure your e-mail addiction:
“If you’re checking your e-mail 24,000 times a year, what are you sacrificing? What are you not working on during that time? Could you reduce your rate to every 15 minutes (a yearly total of 8,000) and be more productive with other aspects of your job? Could you reduce it to once an hour (2,000)? Three times a day (750)?”
Next up, the dashing and smart Randy Murray provides some tips on Staying Continuously Connected and Sane At The Same Time:
“Frankly, there’s no such thing as multi-tasking. What’s really happening is a rapid shifting of focus. A human can only keep that up for a short period of time before errors start creeping in. And rarely do we see the best work out of people who are continually interrupted.”
Randy mentions a tool I pointed him to called AwayFind. I’ve used it for a while now and have been beta testing the next version of it. The new version is nothing short of amazing and can permanently change how you deal with email. I will be writing more about it real soon. Stay tuned.
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