1039: How to Stop Wasting Time on Email with Randall Dean

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🗓️ 10 March 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Randall Dean shares practical tips for taming an overwhelming inbox.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) The best time-saving investment you can make

2) How to keep unread emails from flooding your inbox

3) The inbox shortcuts that’ll save you hours

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— ABOUT RANDALL —

Randy Dean, The E-mail Sanity Expert®, author of Amazon bestseller Taming the E-mail Beast, is an expert on time & e-mail management and the related use of technology. For 25+ years his humorous and engaging programs have given attendees key strategies on better managing their time, e-mail, apps & technology.

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— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload by Cal Newport

• Book: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen

• Book: Clutter's Last Stand: It's Time To De-junk Your Life by Don Aslett

• Past episode: 647: Cal Newport: How to Break Free from Your Email Inboxn

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0:00.0	The average person was basically saying they were saving more than two hours a week with a good
0:15.0	number of them as much as four to six hours per week. One of my first tips to anybody is if you're using a piece of software frequently, daily,
0:27.6	multiple hours per day, there may be no better use of your time if you want to be more efficient
0:34.6	to spend a little bit of time, at least every week,
0:39.5	learning another new tip.
0:42.3	Don't start your day in your inbox.
0:44.7	Because if you open your inbox first,
0:47.5	it's basically like going over the door of the office,
0:49.8	opening the door and saying,
0:50.7	come on in, squirrels.
0:52.0	Take over, right?
1:00.2	Yeah. opening the door saying, come on in, squirrels, take over, right? That's Randy Dean, also known as the email sanity expert.
1:03.7	He has over 25 years of experience helping clients better manage their time, email apps,
1:07.6	and technology.
1:08.6	So you'll learn, one, the best time-saving investment you can make.
1:11.8	Two, how to keep unread emails from flooding your inbox.
1:14.9	And three, the inbox shortcuts that'll save you hours.
1:18.5	And you want a summary write-up of some of these actionable takeaways.
1:21.2	I recommend you sign up for the free gold nugget email newsletter at awesomeatyourjob.com.
1:25.6	I'm Pete McItis.
1:26.7	This is How to Be Awesome at Your Job. And now,
1:29.0	here's Randy. Randy, welcome. That's great to be here. I'm so excited. We're talking email.
	...

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