Few things can derail a day faster than email. One message with an urgent request can undo the best laid plans. It doesn’t take a big request to distract you for a day as email can be death by a thousand cuts. The distraction of email can slice your day up to such a degree that you barely get more than a few minutes to focus on one activity before an email interrupts you. However, there are steps you can take to keep email from ruining your life. In today’s post, I will share 7 steps that you can easily implement to get your email under control.
Unfortunately, too often email runs our lives. We work out of our inbox and rarely close our email program during the day.
I want to suggest that there are ways to take control and keep email from ruining your life. Many of these I frequently use and found it has dramatically helped me manage my email inbox.