Comments on: Should you check your email in the morning? http://www.myorganizedbiz.com/should-you-check-your-email-in-the-morning/ Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:02:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Becky http://www.myorganizedbiz.com/should-you-check-your-email-in-the-morning/comment-page-1/#comment-585 Becky Tue, 23 Dec 2008 02:26:29 +0000 http://www.myorganizedbiz.com/should-you-check-your-email-in-the-morning/#comment-585 @Elli - timers are great for using a specific time frame, whether it's for checking email, filing, shredding, or any number of tasks. It's a good time management tool. @Paul - it certainly helps you be more conscious of the time you're spending on tasks. I think I should use it more often. @Elli – timers are great for using a specific time frame, whether it’s for checking email, filing, shredding, or any number of tasks. It’s a good time management tool.

@Paul – it certainly helps you be more conscious of the time you’re spending on tasks. I think I should use it more often.

]]> By: Paul Rasmussen http://www.myorganizedbiz.com/should-you-check-your-email-in-the-morning/comment-page-1/#comment-503 Paul Rasmussen Sun, 07 Dec 2008 02:28:20 +0000 http://www.myorganizedbiz.com/should-you-check-your-email-in-the-morning/#comment-503 I am a big advocate of using alarms and reminders to 'train' yourself to get a good habit, it seems like a great idea to me. I am a big advocate of using alarms and reminders to ‘train’ yourself to get a good habit, it seems like a great idea to me.

]]> By: Elli http://www.myorganizedbiz.com/should-you-check-your-email-in-the-morning/comment-page-1/#comment-507 Elli Wed, 03 Dec 2008 01:36:38 +0000 http://www.myorganizedbiz.com/should-you-check-your-email-in-the-morning/#comment-507 I was thinking...in the beginning it might be useful to set alarms so that you spend a designated amount of time looking at e-mail. That way you develop a routine and train yourself to use brief, highly focused times on checking e-mail. I was thinking…in the beginning it might be useful to set alarms so that you spend a designated amount of time looking at e-mail. That way you develop a routine and train yourself to use brief, highly focused times on checking e-mail.

]]> By: Becky http://www.myorganizedbiz.com/should-you-check-your-email-in-the-morning/comment-page-1/#comment-569 Becky Wed, 26 Nov 2008 07:37:37 +0000 http://www.myorganizedbiz.com/should-you-check-your-email-in-the-morning/#comment-569 It can be tough to limit email to 3-4 times a day if your work depends on it, but I do agree that you need to put limits on how often you check it. You need to set aside uninterrupted time to get work done. I like the idea of seeing your calendar first, rather than email. Helps you know what is coming for the day. It can be tough to limit email to 3-4 times a day if your work depends on it, but I do agree that you need to put limits on how often you check it. You need to set aside uninterrupted time to get work done.

I like the idea of seeing your calendar first, rather than email. Helps you know what is coming for the day.

]]> By: Paul Rasmussen http://www.myorganizedbiz.com/should-you-check-your-email-in-the-morning/comment-page-1/#comment-543 Paul Rasmussen Wed, 26 Nov 2008 02:25:52 +0000 http://www.myorganizedbiz.com/should-you-check-your-email-in-the-morning/#comment-543 One of the best suggestions we make in our training courses is that people particularly if they are using outlook or lotus notes or groupwise is to set up and initial view that does not show them their email but rather (in outlook for example) their calendar and their tasks. This allows them to focus initially on what they have to do for the day and then they can go and look at their email with a plan for the day already in mind. Nicolas's idea of limited the number of times you check your email to 3-4 times a day is also a great one. One of the best suggestions we make in our training courses is that people particularly if they are using outlook or lotus notes or groupwise is to set up and initial view that does not show them their email but rather (in outlook for example) their calendar and their tasks. This allows them to focus initially on what they have to do for the day and then they can go and look at their email with a plan for the day already in mind.

Nicolas’s idea of limited the number of times you check your email to 3-4 times a day is also a great one.

]]> By: Nicolas http://www.myorganizedbiz.com/should-you-check-your-email-in-the-morning/comment-page-1/#comment-537 Nicolas Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:09:21 +0000 http://www.myorganizedbiz.com/should-you-check-your-email-in-the-morning/#comment-537 Hi, i think that it is important to check your mail in the morning. I recommend checking mail 3 times a day, so that you do not get interrupted too often. One of my favorite practices is to get up early in the morning and to do my mail first thing in the morning before breakfast. You then have already cleaned you inbox and also completed your planning for the day - including some urgent matter that came in over night. I published about 200 concrete time saving tips to gain an extra hour every day on the Time Management Master blog. These tips can be applied at home, at work or on the road. Every person is different and so are the tips. Please let me know if you found something that worked for you. Thanks Nicolas Hi,

i think that it is important to check your mail in the morning. I recommend checking mail 3 times a day, so that you do not get interrupted too often.

One of my favorite practices is to get up early in the morning and to do my mail first thing in the morning before breakfast. You then have already cleaned you inbox and also completed your planning for the day – including some urgent matter that came in over night.

I published about 200 concrete time saving tips to gain an extra hour every day on the Time Management Master blog. These tips can be applied at home, at work or on the road.

Every person is different and so are the tips. Please let me know if you found something that worked for you.

Thanks

Nicolas

]]> By: Elli http://www.myorganizedbiz.com/should-you-check-your-email-in-the-morning/comment-page-1/#comment-539 Elli Sat, 15 Nov 2008 22:01:09 +0000 http://www.myorganizedbiz.com/should-you-check-your-email-in-the-morning/#comment-539 As an entrepreneurial coach, I talk with people frequently about how they work. It can seem like such a little thing, choosing to be reactionary or proactive, can set your whole day off in a particular direction. I totally agree with taking the 1st 15 minutes to plan your day and then moving on to e-mail. It makes crisis planning more manageable (if there is a crisis). As an entrepreneurial coach, I talk with people frequently about how they work. It can seem like such a little thing, choosing to be reactionary or proactive, can set your whole day off in a particular direction.

I totally agree with taking the 1st 15 minutes to plan your day and then moving on to e-mail. It makes crisis planning more manageable (if there is a crisis).

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