Finding a time to meet with someone (or a group of someones) can take a ton of time. Check out this blog post for the questions to ask yourself before your pick a tool and a couple of my recommendations for getting back to doing what you love.
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Have you found a way to stretch time? Create more than the 24/7 we have? If not, there are some ways you can make it feel like you found some time by shifting what you do with what you have.
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Act now…while you’re reading that email. Delete it. Respond to it. Forward it. Get ‘er done and go on to something else!
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STOP scrolling down a massive list of folders (or labels if you’re using gmail) because what you want starts with the 24th letter of the alphabet. Take advantage of the computer’s brain, which puts information with special symbols at the top of a list (think asterisks, ampersands, exclamation marks and the like). You can also use letters and numbers to make life easier, and that’s a good thing, right?
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If you’re like most of us, there are groups of people you send email to. It may be those funny bits you see or receive, it could be your team at work. Maybe it is keeping your family up to date. Any way you slice it, it is a pain to type all those names every time (even if most email tools reveal the names as you type that might match what you’re looking for. When you find yourself sending to the same people 3 or more times, create a group and go enjoy that cup o’joe with your time saved.
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Need more time in your day? Who doesn’t, eh? At some time or another you’ve signed up for a list, a gift, a thingy-ma-bob and now you’re interests have changed. Sign off (unsubscribe) from those lists and quick getting “Deleteitis,” a dreadful disease that comes from pressing the delete key so many times.
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Email tools are getting more sophisticated by the day and there are probably lots of features you didn’t even know they added. Now you can actually sort (or label as they call it in gmail) your messages as they arrive. No more weeding through a ton of emails you don’t care about. Set up those rules and get your time back.
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Don’t let email overload ruin your day and keep you from doing the things that you love or make you money. Use TImesaving TIp #1 (set aside specific times to read your email) to rein in that urge to keep your email window open and providing more shiny objects to distract you.
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There’s only so much time in a day, eh? And managing email can suck that time away soooooooooo fast. Use TImesaving TIp #2 (prioritize your emails) to use that time for other things
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As surprising as it may seem, doing everything yourself isn’t always the least expensive way to get things done. Been there…didn’t work out so well.
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