posted on July 15, 2019 by

Quit Your Addiction to Email!

Many of us send and receive hundreds of emails per day. Suffice to say, checking your inbox every time you receive a notification can become a problem. Even if you try to ignore the inbox, the incoming notifications remind you there are emails sitting there. Unread. “Who’s it from?” “What might be in it?” “Is […]

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posted on November 19, 2018 by

Delete. Purge. Recycle.

Stuff always manages to come to you. Emails pop in, the snail mail arrives, papers get dumped on your desk, the print key gets used. The trick to staying ahead of all this is to get rid of stuff as you go. Every day, make it a mission that you will delete some emails and […]

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posted on September 9, 2018 by

Simplify Your Life!

One of the best things I ever did was to simplify everything that I could. ‘Simplify’ was a theme I used a few years ago as a guidepost for keeping me on track with my goals. I was so jazzed by the results that I even created an ongoing list of stuff I wanted to […]

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posted on December 24, 2017 by

Is this one habit derailing your day?

I’m just going to jump right in and attack this right off the bat. Do you check your email first thing in the morning? I know it’s tempting. I mean, it’s right there on your phone or on your computer. Why not quickly have a look-see at what’s come in while you were sleeping? No […]

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posted on July 6, 2016 by

Take An Email Break On Your Vacation!

Vacation season is here and I know you’re itching to get away from the office and get some well-deserved downtime. But how about leaving your virtual office behind too? If you’re concerned about the plethora of emails you’ll need to deal with if you don’t stay on top of it while lolling around on a […]

Filed Under: Balance, Email Management, Life-Work Balance, Prioritizing, Quick Office Organizing Tips, Stress relief
posted on June 22, 2016 by

Search. Don’t file!

How much time do you spend filing emails? How much time do you spend looking for an email you’ve filed? A study done by IBM asked the question … “Am I wasting my time organizing email? Basically, the study’s goal was to determine what takes less time – searching through your inbox to find a […]

Filed Under: Digital Organizing, Email Management, Organize, Productivity, Quick Office Organizing Tips, Stress relief
posted on April 13, 2015 by

Set time limits on your tasks

Remember way back in the day, when we had the luxury of time for making long-term plans that moved along at a nice and easy pace and all of our work got done by the end of the day? Yeah, me neither. Speed and flexibility are today’s buzzwords and limiting how long we spend on […]

Filed Under: Email Management, Productivity, Task & Project Management
posted on February 27, 2015 by

Delete. Delete. Delete.

It’s estimated that 80% of the stuff we keep never gets looked at again once it’s been filed away. That’s 80% folks! Never. Looked. At. Again. Our society has developed a mindset of KEEP – which translates to ‘keep everything.’ And because computer storage capacity has grown exponentially, we CAN keep stuff – forever! So […]

Filed Under: Digital Organizing, Email Management