Dealing with e-mail has become a constant struggle for many people; there are too many of them, we never get on top of dealing with them, the inbox is constantly full and they continue to arrive like swarms of angry wasps’ intent on diverting, distracting and creating stress in our already too busy lives. It needn't be like this. Just follow these simple but effective email management tips from The Time Doctor!

1. Manage Your Emails & Save Time
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2. Email is a fantastic tool for business, but if we’re not
careful it can easily become one of the biggest time
draining tasks we do!
Like everything else, it is important we manage the way
we use our email so we are using our time effectively
and not spending hours traipsing through email after
email.
So how to do you prevent yourself getting lost in
checking and responding to emails?
Try these email management tips from The Time
Doctor

3. Are You a Slave to the ‘Ping’?
Checking emails every time you hear a ‘ping!’ on any of
your devices is not a good use of your time; it takes you
away from the work you are currently doing, which can
have an effect for the rest of the day.
Give yourself a time in the day to check your emails and
stick to it. It can be 10 minutes in the morning, at lunch
and in the afternoon, or it could be 30 minutes at the
start or end of the day.
Whatever you decide, stick to your new schedule.

4. De-clutter your inbox
How many emails do you have in your inbox?
If it is not empty at the end of the day you have to many.
Set up a filing system consisting of the following files
named as follows:
@To Do, @To Read and @Waiting For Response

5. De-clutter your inbox
The reason for using the @ symbol is to ensure the
folders are always at the top of your personal
folders list.
As emails arrive, decide what you are going to do
with them, if they can’t be dealt with quickly, they
need to be filed in one of your folders so that they
can be dealt with in dedicated time.

6. Manage multiple email accounts
It’s rare within business now that we only use one email
address, so to keep managing them all as easily as
possible try to keep your emails directed to one place
e.g. an Outlook or Google account.
This way you will be able to manage all of your emails
from one account, saving you time going back and
forward checking different pages.

7. Use email for what it’s good at
Email isn’t the answer to everything, people use email
for a lot of things it really wasn't meant to do, allocating
tasks to do, sending invoices, answering support
requests and questions all via email.
If you do this then you should know that all of these
things are better handled outside of email. There are
better solutions, which can be easily found by searching
the internet

8. Four Top Tips to keep in Mind
Be the boss - don't let your email control your life.
Use it the way it was intended - and use other tools to
handle the jobs email isn't good at.
Keep everything put away - just like your house, clutter
accumulates, so keep your inbox clean.
Get organized - multiple email addresses might be
necessary, but multiple inboxes are not.

9. Master these simple concepts, and you'll be well
on your way to getting rid of email overwhelm
for good.
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