TAKE BACK CONTROL

Email used to be cool. It was a good way to keep in touch with people you like across countries, cultures and time zones. Remember hotmail?

Now, it's a chore. It's become your unhappy place. You already get so many emails for work that checking your personal emails isn't even that fun. It's all full of stuff you don't need. Companies you don't care about trying to sell you something.

Well, there's good news.

I suffered from this problem years ago, getting 100+ emails per day, while managing a large team. So I looked for a solution. There HAD to be something out there to help.

And there was.

I'll share one tip every week on managing your emails because there's so much demand for this. Follow along and I promise by the end, you'll be completely in control.

Let's start with this: keep your inbox at zero.

Our innovation, ideas and creative inputs matter. Not how fast we complete admin work. To keep things easy to manage, it's best to make sure you have nothing in your inbox. Clutter reduces creativity. Everything you keep in your inbox has to get done. If there's something you can't do in 5 minutes - add it to your calendar.

Create an event in your calendar and attach the email to it. Delete it from your inbox. Now, you have dedicated time set aside to complete that project. To research for new suppliers. To create that proposal for that client. To organise that holiday.

For quick things like replying to a question or sharing an update, your inbox is your to-do list. For everything that needs more than 5 minutes - switch the task to your calendar.

Keep your inbox empty. Like how you keep your physical mailbox empty.

That's is for today. More coming soon.

Harry

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P.S.S. If you don't have friends, share it with an enemy. We all have people we don't like, right?