We all get bombarded with emails these days, and although it’s a ‘must-have’ tool, it can end up controlling your life instead of you being in control. You can open a new webmail account and within a few short months your inbox is overflowing. If you don’t manage your email it will manage to eat up all of your time before you know what’s happened.
This is why I love the strategy Zeke Camusio, internet marketer, author and speaker, employs to manage his email better. His 7 tips for managing your email are simple but very effective. He admits he use to spend 3 hours a day processing emails. Now it takes him 30 minutes. That’s a result! So, how does he do it?
- Empty your inbox daily (it takes discipline but it’s worth it)
- Read your email and delete all junk mail (I tend to delete junk mail first, but then you may not realise it’s junk)
- Delete all FYI (For Your Information) emails after reading
- Answer all emails that take less than a minute to reply
- Remaining emails go to end of day, end of week or end of month folders; end of day emails go on a daily to-do list, end of week is done on Fridays and end of month is done on the 30th. This should only leave, maybe 2 or 3 emails to read and reply on the daily list
- When repying to your emails set a time limit and make them short and concise
- Check your emails only once per day
Zeke prefers to use email clients, such as Microsoft Outlook, but I like gmail. Gmail can aggregate all of your email accounts in one place. Managing your emails better comes down to discipline and time management. Choose your strategy and stick to it every day. You will soon discover time you didn’t know you had.
