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08/11/2018
Organizing email for maximum productivity
Do you often confuse the urgent with the important?
You are not alone. Dwight D. Eisenhower, hugely successful US general and president, struggled with this too!
He realized: What is important is seldom urgent, and what is urgent is seldom important.
This realization led to the Eisenhower Principle or the Eisenhower Matrix. It deems that our problems can be classified into two kinds: the urgent and the important; importantly, the two are often independent of each other.
We almost always mix the two. We tackle tasks or problems “as they arrive”, that is, without any prioritization. The result: we feel drained.
Modern technologies compound this problem. We are constantly bombarded with stimuli that prompt us to act urgently upon them.
To effectively manage our time, we must distinguish between urgent activities, that demand immediate attention; and important activities, that lead us toward achieving our professional or personal goals. To do so, we categorize our tasks into four buckets:
• Urgent and important: items such as crises, deadlines
• Important but not urgent: items such as relationships, long-term goals
• Urgent but not important: items such as meetings, other interruptions
• Not urgent and not important: items such as watching the news
You might realize: most of our time is spent doing urgent but not important tasks!
By categorizing our activities as above, we can focus our time on the tasks that are truly important to us. This gives us the mental and emotional energy to respond – instead of react -- to events around us.
Coming to email, a Washington Times article reports that people spend an average of 4.1 hours each day on email. That equates to more than half our workday, and one-sixth our life!
The typical, yet most ineffective, way to address email, is to address emails as they come in. A more efficient way is to respond to those that can be immediately responded to, and then move the rest into a set of never-ending nested folders.
Could there be a better way?
Given what we have learned about categorizing our activities, how about we apply categories to email as well? Slot all your emails into one of the above four categories, in addition to other categories or labels you may add depending on your projects. No folders required!
In Outlook, right-click an email to apply a suitable category, or create your own category. In Gmail, click the label icon to assign a category.
After this comes the most important part: Filter your Inbox to show items by category instead of by date.
Now all you need to do is expand the Urgent and important and the Important but not urgent categories to ensure that you always focus on your most important items.
Try it, and let me know how it goes.
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