I thought I'd share with you some of the crazy Zen goodness that comes from looking at an empty Inbox.
Happy deleting, delegating, and doing. :-)
Friday, October 26, 2007
Email Hacks: Eye on the Prize of Inbox Zero
At the beginning of this month I wrote about flushing the email inbox, pointing out Merlin Mann's Inbox Zero Series.
I thought I'd share with you some of the crazy Zen goodness that comes from looking at an empty Inbox.
Happy deleting, delegating, and doing. :-)
I thought I'd share with you some of the crazy Zen goodness that comes from looking at an empty Inbox.
Happy deleting, delegating, and doing. :-)
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I had an empty inbox once - for about 5 minutes...
When you make sure that you have a place to capture all of your Todos OUTSIDE of your inbox, it can come a lot easier.
Even then it is hard to let some things go. Weird psychological stuff that makes us hang onto things in our inbox, I think. Mine has generally hovered between 10 and 40 for a few months, but now it's as good as it's ever been. :-)
Even though there is almost always something in my inbox, it's never too bad. I try to keep it under 10 items, especially at work. Against the advice of most people, though, I do use my inbox as a to-do list. However, I live be mantra that if it's an issue than can be addressed in only a couple minutes, I address it immediately. It's worked for me so far, and it's actually been noticed at work, as I'm known as one to communicate quickly to clients. That actually helped me get the new position earlier this year.
One thing I'm bad at, though, is leaving "reminder" messages, such as change in processes, explanations about new systems, etc., in my inbox. I figure that if I see the subject enough, I'll remember the content and apply it. Doesn't work so well, since I just end up ignoring it after a while... :-)
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