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How to survive the email flood? - MES018

How to survive the email flood? - MES018

Mastering Embedded Systems vor 10 Jahren

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Everybody has his limit in handling emails. For one 10 per day are
too much, another handles 150 without any problems. But sooner or
later, everybody of us have to declare: it's too much. I have had a
time in my life in which I have had to handle 750 mails per day in
average. Nobody can say that this is possible to do. But that was
the time I started a very strict and consequent filtering and
categorization. However it still was too much. The combination of
importance and urgency was back-breaking. In the first part of this
episode I will show you some of the most successful approaches how
to handle the flood of emails daily arriving in your inbox. There
are different concepts, sometimes even contradicting systems, but
give them a try and find the most acceptable way for you. But if
you're in the same situation as I was, even the most sophisticated
approaches to handle the flood, weren't succeeding, then you might
be interested in the 2nd part of this episode. This summer I
stumbled over the book of Rory Vaden "Procrastinate on Purpose: 5
Permissions to Multiply Your Time"". Rory was welcome as guest in
the Art of Charm Podcast His book was an eye-opener. I do not agree
with everything Rory has written, however the major part, the
introduction of a 3rd dimension, was essential. If importance and
urgency are the first two dimensions, significance becomes the 3rd
dimension.