From the course: How to Organize Your Time and Your Life
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Avoid continuously processing your email
From the course: How to Organize Your Time and Your Life
Avoid continuously processing your email
- [Instructor] There was a study done by the University of British Columbia sometime in the last five years that studied the impact of batch processing email versus continuously processing email. And it was a very extensive, very well conducted study. And they found that, and they tested two test groups, and each one, one week they had people just check email all day long continuously and then the following week they had them batch process their email, which means designate specific times you're going to go into your email, give it your undivided attention for 20, 30, 40 minutes, whatever it takes to clean it out, then shut it down and come back at the next designated moment, which might be two hours later. And they found to a person that when people batch processed email, rather than continuously processed, they got through the same number of emails in less time. So we a lot of times do it 'cause we think that's…
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Organize with a goal in mind2m 12s
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Organize like a kindergarten classroom2m 41s
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Tailor your system to your style4m 9s
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Three steps for organizing anything3m 52s
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Trim your schedule with the four Ds1m 37s
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Schedule your most important tasks2m 53s
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Don’t start your day with email4m 8s
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Avoid continuously processing your email1m 16s
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Solve one problem at a time56s
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