Finding Time

Time is on everyone’s mind dur­ing the hol­i­days. Last minute shop­ping stops and last minute scram­bles to top-​off sea­sonal sales increase aware­ness of our tick­ing time bombs. Here are five ways to save time – if you have time to read them.

1. Con­trol the flood of email. It’s hard to remem­ber doing busi­ness before email. I wouldn’t like to depend on snail mail today, still email can decrease pro­duc­tiv­ity. Com­bined with a good spam fil­ter, we took con­trol of our email by set­ting hours of the day to check email. First, turn off all notices that urge you to check incom­ing mes­sages. Next set aside three or four times a day to spend a spe­cific amount of time read­ing, respond­ing and send­ing emails. First thing in the morn­ing, at lunch, just before quit­ting and pos­si­bly a few min­utes at home to answer per­sonal email. Yes, you have already thought of times when this won’t work for you. Me too, but hold­ing to the gen­eral con­cept will get you through the pile of mes­sages with more time to spare for Oh, sip­ping a cup of tea maybe. [Read More]

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