Get more done in less time – Get smart about email and your in box.

By Jerry Bellune

Get smart about email and your in box.
Productive people don’t let email suck them in.
It’s lethal as quick sand. It kills your time.
Set aside a specific amount of time for email.
Check it no more than three times a day.
20 minutes per check is an hour out of your life.

Do the same with your in box.
This takes five minutes at the end of the day.
Organize the stuff in your in box.
Don’t leave any stacks of paper lying on your desk.
Put everything in your in box by priority of task.
Quit looking for lost papers.
What you must act on is in your in box.

Make the most of your biological clock.
Some of us are morning people.
We’re ready to hop out of bed and tackle the universe.
Some of us are exactly the opposite,.
It takes lots of coffee to get us going.
But once we get going, watch out.
We’re like locomotives that run all night.

Tackle big projects when you’re most productive.
Morning people work best after a good night’s sleep.
Evening people runs in a different clock.
Later in the day is their time to tackle the big ones.
What about those who don’t seem to have a clock.
Don’t worry about them. Let them eat your dust.

Create your “To Do” list the night before.
Know what you plan to accomplish tomorrow.
List the order of priorities for each task or project.
Estimate the time each will take.
Leave some break time in their every 60 minutes.

Manage your paper work.
Make three piles. Delegate. Discard. Do.
Throw the Discards away.
Delegate those that someone else should be doing.
Then do whatever’s left.
Those should be projects no one else can do.

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