Tame Your Email with these Email Tips

These email tips can tame your email and stop your Inbox getting out of control.

If you are like most people you receive over 50 emails a day. Email has the possibility to dwarf all other forms of communication - and so it is important to stay on top of them.

Does your email notify you as soon as you receive an email? If you are like me, I find that this interrupts my concentration, and often put down whatever I am doing, to look at the email.

Usually the email is unimportant or even worse, another SPAM.

There are a couple of ways you can stay on top of your email without being overwhelmed or interrupted every 5 minutes.

1. Turn the notify off on your email, so that your concentration is not interrupted and you can continue with your assigned tasks.
2. Set 2 or 3 times a day aside to look at your emails. Usually morning, midday and late afternoon are good choices. Try to choose those parts of your when your energy is low and you are not as productive. The important thing is to check your email on your schedule, not somebody else’s.
3. Assign folders for people that you receive regular correspondence. Using a filing system in your email folders makes it easier to find.
4. Use a the philosophy of Read, Reply, Next for most of your emails. In other words, when you read your email, try to reply there and then, and move onto the next email. Alternatively, leave your replies to a slow part of the day.

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