I watched this great video last week and it has transformed my email management. Over recent years I have got into a bad habit of checking my emails for urgent stuff and then eventually getting round to actioning them at some point in the (sometimes distant!) future. It all started when I had a three hour round trip commute by train to London, so I would deal with urgent stuff in the office but leave most of the emails to be dealt with on the train journey. It doesn’t work so well now I work from home!
I saw this video and now I only press send/receive when I have a bit of time to actually action my emails (whether that be deleting them, doing whatever is required now including responding to them, or adding them onto my task list for a future, more appropriate time). As a result my inbox has been clear for a week and people are getting much quicker responses from me.
Have a look at the video; it’s the bit about ‘checking on your neighbour’s cat’ that did it for me…
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