The 3 Email Commandments
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The 3 Email Commandments will help you get through your inbox and on with your life. By following the commandments you will be able to process your email faster and more efficiently, which will allow you to focus on other, more important activities.
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The 3 Email Commandments
- 2. Commandment #1 Stop playing Tetris
- 3. Email is like Tetris. No matter how fast you are, there’s always more coming, and faster. An average person today gets 110 emails/day.
- 4. By 2015 it will be 125/day (a 14% increase) 2014 2015 110 email/day 125 email/day
- 5. Since days in 2015 will still only be 24 hours long, something has to change, you. You need to change the way you think about email, and the way you process it.
- 6. Commandment #2 Don’t let email be your no.1 priority
- 7. Be proactive and focus on your own to-do list. Email is your to-do list that other people can write on.
- 8. Scan your Inbox for urgent/important items in the morning, and then work on your top priorities. 8
- 9. Dedicate blocks of time to processing email, and treat email processing as one of your priorities Not the default Priority #1!
- 10. If you’re ever sucked into “doing email”, ask yourself if clearing your Inbox really the best use of time right now! Eventually it will be - but make a conscious decision about it.
- 11. Commandment #3 Not all emails are created equal
- 12. Every email interface gives the same amount of real estate on the screen to each message. This tricks our subconscious into thinking every email is equally important. Boss Lottery/ offer Payment Confirmation
- 13. But that’s wrong - some emails need to be dealt with right away (urgent/important). Some can wait (non-urgent/important). And others should be archived/deleted in bulk (unimportant).
- 14. According to our data the unimportant bucket contains, on average, 58% of emails.
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- 16. Now your email only contains emails that you need to deal with today. And if you don’t get to all of them, it’s ok - just snooze them till tomorrow!