Archives for the 'Email' Category
Move It So You Won’t Lose It (Email Monday) [Tech Rest]
When you have more than one screen page of emails in your Inbox, you start to go numb to them. In effect, you lose them.
Many people use their Inbox as a todo list. Since the average person gets over 80 messages a day, the Inbox just doesn’t work very well as a todo list: [...]
Emptying All Your Inboxes At Once (Email Monday) [Tech Rest]
Managing your email can feel like bailing water from a sinking boat. The water is coming in faster than you can bail it out. It’s even worse when you have multiple Inboxes and you want to get them all to empty. So what can you do if you are like me and you have multiple [...]
Rest Is A Weapon (GTD Tuesday) [Tech Rest]
One of the most powerful productivity weapons at your disposal is rest. If you want to be super productive you must also be super disciplined about scheduling and taking time off. Today, I want to talk about taking time off from two things: emails and RSS feeds.
Email. I’ve now made it two weeks in a [...]
Prejudice Is Good (With Email) (Email Monday) [Tech Rest]
The worst way to manage your email is the best way to work with people. Each person deserves to be treated with respect and not be pre-judged. On the other hand the worst way you can treat your email is to give each one equal value. Many people manage their email on a first come [...]
Take The 20 Minute Email Challenge (Email Monday) [Tech Rest]
Are you staying ahead of the curve on managing your emails? How many emails do you get per day? How long does it take you to process them?
The answers to these questions are easy to obtain and vital to your success in the business world.
Here’s what to do.
1. Find out how many messages you [...]
So, You’re Not Using Jott? [The Cranking Widgets Blog]
I spend a good deal of time in the car every day. Not as much as some, but it’s typically somewhere around 90 minutes round trip on a given work day. And being one of those people whose brain is pretty much always going, I tend to have many thoughts and ideas during [...]
Dealing With 1,155 Messages Before Lunch (Email Monday) [Tech Rest]
Kelly Forrister, of the David Allen Company, shared a great story that I want to pass along to you. She went on vacation and returned to find 1,155 messages waiting for her in her Inbox (Gasp!).
One thing that it sounds like she did but I want to be a little more specific about is sorting [...]
Favorite Frustrating Email Subject Lines (Email Monday) [Tech Rest]
It blows my mind that so many people routinely write lousy subject lines. Since the average person reading this gets over 20,000 messages per year (see Scary Email Math ), bad subject lines should be punishable by death (okay maybe not that severe).
I would love to hear some of your favorites. I might even turn [...]
Thankful for Email? [Productivity @ Home]
Every Monday, I share my thoughts on Working @ Home.
Many of us are pondering thankfulness this week and taking time to express feelings of appreciation. Over at his excellent blog Tech Rest, my buddy Craig Huggart reminds each of us to be grateful for the fabulous/free tool that is Email. I’ve been known to [...]
Thanksgiving For Email (Email Monday) [Tech Rest]
What’s the first word that comes to your mind when you think of email? I hope you didn’t say that too loud. Email is the bane of many people’s existence. If it is for you, check out the many posts I have on coping with it. However, I am thankful for email.
Email is free. It’s [...]