From the course: Getting Organized for Peak Performance
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Managing email
From the course: Getting Organized for Peak Performance
Managing email
- Let me ask you a question. How many emails do you have in your inbox right now, read and unread? Less than a hundred? Hundreds? Thousands? (laughs) Okay, after this lesson, you'll have learned a system for effectively dealing with the vast amount of email you get every day. One of the greatest demands on your time is email. And so it's critical you put it in the proper perspective. See, we become a society where we expect replies to email immediately, and where we sometimes send way more emails than necessary. First, let's see the impact email has on your day in terms of time. I want you to calculate and write down three numbers. First, how many emails do you receive in an average day? Second, how many of those emails do you reply to, either immediately or within the next day or so? And finally, how many emails do you send in an average day? Not including the replies you counted earlier. See, studies show that on…
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