Everyone uses email. Whether you're eight or eighty, most people with either a computer, tablet or phone have an email account. After struggled with email for years, I've learned the hard way that to be more productive with my time, I have needed systems that work efficiently every time I use them. When I'm working at top productivity, I try to avoid these 9 most common and critical email … [Read more...]
7 Bad Email Habits That Waste Your Time
Email can be the biggest waste of time and lost productivity in business. Because it is an essential tool (even my parents have email accounts and they're in their mid-eighties), email can be a Gigantic waste of your time given everything you need to accomplish in a day! Here are some simple facts about time spent on email: … [Read more...]
Making Email a Productivity Tool For Your Business – Expert Guest Sara Caputo
When tamed, email is one of the best tools for increasing productivity. I'm excited to share a post by my friend Sara Caputo. Known for her engaging style and vibrant personality, Sara Caputo, MA, is a dynamic productivity coach, consultant, and trainer based in Santa Barbara, California. She is the founder and principal of RADIANT, a professional organizing and productivity consulting company. … [Read more...]
Productivity Tip – Learn The In’s and Outs of Your Email!
Every once in awhile, I surprise myself with clicking on an icon - and suddenly something happens that I’ve wanted to do for a long time. I just experienced this with my downloads file on my mac. Until today, I didn’t know I could “arrange” downloads in various ways - including by date/time! If I’d known that for the past two years, I could have saved SOOO much time digging through that file to … [Read more...]
Zero Out Email Daily
I often have a daily battle with my In Box! My typical email capacity daily is around 250 incoming messages. To manage it, I make a daily rule to get my ‘inbox to zero’. To do so, follow this strategy: … [Read more...]