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Stop reading your email!

How many time a day do you check your email?  Are you a slave to your inbox?

Break the habit with these helpful tips -

• Create your daily to do list before you check your emails – it will help you prioritize what need to get done that day. You can always add an item from your inbox.
• Instead of constantly checking your emails – allocate specific times to check emails. According to a study by Gartner Inc., which surveyed corporate email users, 53 percent of users check their mail six or more times a day. Men are twice as likely as women to check email more than 15 times a day.
• Remember the 3 D’s – Deal with it, Delegate it or Delete it.
• Clean Up Your Act – Seriously, organize your email folders – delete or file an email when finished. Use a spam filter to eliminate unwanted spam. A little time now, will save hours of searching through old emails later.
• Separate emails – don’t have your personal emails come to your office. That way at work you just have to deal with work. Added benefit – you employer or your IT guy doesn’t end up seeing your email exchange with your gynecologist’s office.

By checking your emails less often, you’ll remain more focused. And trust me, if an important email comes in and you don’t respond – someone will call you!

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