22 min
How to Manage Email Overload The Mental Offload Podcast
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- Mental Health
Are you drowning in email?
Before you’ve even gotten dressed in the morning, your mind is already on the 117 emails that are sitting in your inbox. Waiting on a response.
Email is usually one of the first things you look at in the morning, and one of the last things you look at at night.
It seems impossible to get (and stay) on top of it.
Email and collaboration tools have transformed the way we work.
Sometimes, it’s for the better: hybrid, asynchronous work on dispersed teams wouldn’t be possible without it.
But much of the time, it’s the struggle of the modern sisyphus: spending days pushing email out of your inbox…only to wake up and have to do it over, and over again.
Not only that, but it ends up crowding out the time we need to move forward your actual strategic priorities.
Taking control over how you manage your inbox is one of the best things you can do to create more sustainable and successful work habits.
This week, we’ll explore how to make it happen.
What You'll Learn:
3 principles for successfully managing email
Why the “vigilant and diligent” mindset keeps you stressed, anxious and spread too thin
Actionable tips for playing email offense vs. defense, and balancing email and strategic priorities
What it takes to win the game of email “hot potato”
To learn more, visit The Mental Offload.
Are you drowning in email?
Before you’ve even gotten dressed in the morning, your mind is already on the 117 emails that are sitting in your inbox. Waiting on a response.
Email is usually one of the first things you look at in the morning, and one of the last things you look at at night.
It seems impossible to get (and stay) on top of it.
Email and collaboration tools have transformed the way we work.
Sometimes, it’s for the better: hybrid, asynchronous work on dispersed teams wouldn’t be possible without it.
But much of the time, it’s the struggle of the modern sisyphus: spending days pushing email out of your inbox…only to wake up and have to do it over, and over again.
Not only that, but it ends up crowding out the time we need to move forward your actual strategic priorities.
Taking control over how you manage your inbox is one of the best things you can do to create more sustainable and successful work habits.
This week, we’ll explore how to make it happen.
What You'll Learn:
3 principles for successfully managing email
Why the “vigilant and diligent” mindset keeps you stressed, anxious and spread too thin
Actionable tips for playing email offense vs. defense, and balancing email and strategic priorities
What it takes to win the game of email “hot potato”
To learn more, visit The Mental Offload.
22 min