This is Optimal Living Daily episode 1772, email for Minimalists.

And not a natural, both by Joshua Fields Millburn of the Minimalists.com,

and I'm just a malloc, the guy that reads to you every single day of the year,

including weekends and holidays, to help you live a more meaningful and positive life.

Two posts today, both from Joshua of the Minimalists, a friend of mine and our shows.

Let's keep this intro minimal for the Minimalists and start optimizing your life.

Email for Minimalists by Joshua Fields Millburn of the Minimalists.com.

I manage email differently from how I used to.

Email of yesterday.

When I worked in corporate America, I would receive 150 to 250 emails a day.

In fact, the first thing I did each morning was reach for my blackberry and check my inbox,

and then I was anchored to that device throughout the day, checking it every few minutes,

always anticipating every new message.

Is an unspoken corporate expectation to be on call, always available.

And at night, before my head hit the pillow, the last thing I did out of habit,

let's check my phone for new email messages.

Looking back on the whole experience, it seems a bit crazy now, but at the time, it felt completely normal.

The truth is that fewer than 40 of those couple hundred emails required any kind of action.

Some of them just needed to be read and filed away mentally.

Many were irrelevant, but still required my precious time to read and decide whether or not it

was pertinent information. To manage such a daunting load, I developed an elaborate system to

organize the chaos, constantly checking my inbox, filing messages into appropriate to-do folders,

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