Tuesday, August 19, 2008

From the No More Chaos Inbox: Email

Dear Beryl,

I was on vacation for a week and I have thousands of emails in my inbox. I am totally overwhelmed. How can I regain control? Help!!!

Susan


Dear Susan,

Schedule 15 minutes a day to work on your email. Focus only on emails during that 15 minutes. No phone calls, no interruptions. Take each email one at a time and make a decision. The decision: put it in a folder, respond to it or delete it. Do that with each email...one at a time. Do this for 15 minutes every day until the backlog is caught up. You will be amazed at how many you can get done in 15 minutes.

Beryl