• How To Reset Your Email
    Email

    How To Reset Your Email

    I wandered over to my client manager's desk. I had a changes to go into a release, and she hadn't responded to the system emails asking for her approval. It was the first week of January, and the fix needed to be in the next week. "Oh, I deleted all my emails on January 2nd. I had almost 10,000, and I decided that I just needed to get rid of them because I wasn't going to get through them." And in the meantime, changes critical for the users were left undone as we scrambled to resubmit all the changes to the system.How many emails are in your inbox? If you have thousands, you need an email reset. But don't delete them outright or just plod through the inbox. Here is a better way.

  • Email Delay
    Email

    Shareable: Email And Focus

    One look at an email can rob you of 15 minutes of focus. One call on your cell phone, one tweet, one instant message can destroy your schedule, forcing you to move meetings, or blow off really important things, like love, and friendship. --Jacqueline Leo

  • Books
    Books,  Time Management

    Tell Your Time: Short, Simple, Do-Able Method

    I've always wondered why so many books on time management were just overly-long rehashing of warmed-over ideas. Tell Your Time is none of these. A short and straightforward book, it takes some older concepts and combines them to help you figure out how to manage your time. Today's article is about this small and powerful book.