In this is tiny leaps,

we talk about why you should stop checking your email.

Get excited because this is tiny leaps.

Big change. Welcome to another episode of Tiny Leaps, Big Changes, where I share simple strategies you can use to get more out of your life.

My name is Greg Klunis and in this episode we are talking about email.

Well actually that's not completely true. talking about

is productivity and getting things done and staying focused and gaining energy in the day

and sort of keeping that energy alive. However, one of the number one

drainers of that energy is checking email and social media first thing in the morning.

Now you've probably seen this in yourself.

If not, then let me break it down for you.

Let me tell you a quick story.

So for me, I first noticed this as a pattern in myself, maybe four or five months ago.

I started noticing that when I woke up and I checked my phone and I checked my email and I had that stuff just sort of open all day.

By roughly noon 1 PM 2 PM I would be filled with anxiety. I would be stressed out I would be

Like my stomach would hurt I would just feel not good and and because of that it would then cause me to grab my phone more often to

check Instagram more often to check email to check social to check all of these

different things not necessarily even, just as an unconscious reaction to the anxiety.

Because so much of why we do that is anxiety, it's the unknown.

We want to know is there something new there and so we grab the thing, the device to check it

and that helps us to short term get rid of the anxiety but as you know as I'm sure you know that's not necessarily a good thing it's

not necessarily a good thing to train that behavior when it comes to uh... this short-term

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