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This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 357 Efficient email by Steve Pavlina of StevePavlina.com

and I'm your personal narrator Justin Mollick. This is a podcast I like to call an audio blog or

blog cast because it's not your typical podcast. I read to you from some of the best blogs I can

find with author permission and some of these authors are massively successful. Others are smaller

but still excellent authors and today is Steve Pavlina who is one of those bigger bloggers with

a ton of readers and he recently spent 30 days going to Disneyland every single day simply because

he can and he likes to experiment with weird things like that. You can read about that on his site

but I won't be reading posts about that. Today's post is about email so more along the lines of

productivity which I feel like I haven't read in a while. So with that let's get to this post and

start optimizing your life. Efficient email by Steve Pavlina of StevePavlina.com

Checking email too often is a significant productivity drain. Email by its very nature isn't usually

urgent unless it's your entire job such as answering customer support emails. Here are some tips

to prevent email from taking too big a chunk out of your day. Number one decide in advance exactly

when you'll check email. Don't check email half-hazardly. You can easily waste 30 to 60 minutes per

day checking email too often. In most cases you should be fine checking your email three times per day

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