Welcome to the Get It Done Guy's quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

If you follow Get It Done Guy on Twitter or Facebook, you've probably heard me talk about the productivity musical that I co-wrote.

One of the tips in the musical is all about mastering your email overload.

You'll hear an excerpt later in this episode.

Here's how it came about.

I was pondering my inbox.

Oh, email, you're my salvation and my damnation.

You enslave me.

Yet, yet I can't get enough of you.

Oh, it's bad for me, but Europa has it far worse.

Her day job is running the register at Bernice's gardening shop, green-growing things, too.

But she's really the secret owner of the entire Eastern block through a maze of corporate shells.

Unfortunately, that means that whenever a decision has to be made, someone sins her in email asking her opinion.

She's looking so stressed out that even her faux ermine fur coat is beginning to look a tad.

Well, Pekid, and Europa doesn't like to look peeked.

She gets testy.

Email volume depends on them, not you.

The reason that email can be stressful to handle is that there's

just too much of it. In the 90s, Grandma Cuddles sent Europa cute little joke emails.

Europa learned to delete these emails on red. Then marketers discovered spam. They sent ads for

natural female enhancement. Europa doesn't need enhancing, so she deleted those unread as well.

But now the worst has happened.

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