Spend Less Time on Email: Don't Let Your Inbox Own You
The Intentional Advantage
Tanya Dalton
4.8 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2019
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Do you spend way too much time on emails? Today, I'm sharing how to become intentional about your email management through several strategies, including batching, simple ways to categorize your emails to take action on them quickly. After this episode, you'll have the tools to manage your email more effectively, the permission to set boundaries, and finally, unplug from your inbox.
What's In This Episode:
Setting expectations and boundaries for your email response time
Putting time aside in your calendar for managing emails
Creating an email management system that works for you and your work
5 categories to quickly take action in your inbox, instead of spending hours on email
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 10 of Productivity Paradox with Tanya Dalton, a podcast focused on helping you |
| 0:09.0 | achieve your best life. Join Tanya this season as she explores the concept of bending time |
| 0:14.4 | so you could stay focused on what matters most. To get her free checklist, five minutes to peak |
| 0:19.8 | productivity, simply go to inkquellpress.com slash |
| 0:23.4 | podcast. And now here's your host, Tanya Dalton. |
| 0:28.4 | Hello, hello, everyone. Welcome to Productivity Paradox. I'm your host, Tanya Dalton, and this is |
| 0:34.6 | episode 123. Spend less time on email. So as we continue our journey to find |
| 0:42.6 | ways to bend time this season, a conversation about one of the biggest time thieves has to be |
| 0:49.3 | addressed, email. And while your inbox definitely has some pluses, it does keep you in contact with your |
| 0:56.5 | family and your friends, it can also be a cumbersome beast if you let it. So I want to help you |
| 1:03.3 | find ways to spend less time on your email so you can be more effective when you do want to |
| 1:09.0 | hop on and connect. I don't want your inbox to own you. |
| 1:13.0 | It should be the other way around. But before we dive in, I want to say a quick word about today's |
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| 1:33.6 | Gusto. Stay tuned for details on that in just a little bit. But let's dive into today's topic, |
| 1:40.6 | talking about email. And let me ask you this. Did you know the average professional |
| 1:46.0 | spends about 28% of the workday reading and answering email. 28%. For the average full-time |
| 1:55.0 | worker in America, that amounts to a staggering 2.6 hours spent and about 120 messages received every single day. |
| 2:05.3 | That's about 13 hours a week. It's no wonder we feel like you can't get anything done. |
| 2:11.0 | We are practically living in our inbox. It's a lot of time spent checking, reading, replying, all throughout the day. And oftentimes, |
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