7 Ways To Be Ruthless With Your Email
Share Sometimes you just have to be ruthless with your email. Otherwise, it will run you over like a freight train. This weekend, there was an interesting USA Today article about a Harris Interactive poll that showed that more than 50 emails a day is the tipping point for most people to be overwhelmed by [...]
How the iPad Replaced My Laptop – Part II
Share Previously, I wrote “How the iPad Replaced my Laptop in 30 Days.” I have continued to use the iPad as my main mobile computing device and my laptop continues to sit on my desk more and more. So, I thought I would provide some additional insights on using the iPad as your “laptop replacement.” [...]
7 Tips to Jump-start Your Work After A Break
Share Many of us are back to work after this holiday weekend. (Here in the U.S.) How long does it take your productivity to get back up-to-speed? A few hours? A few days? Here are some quick tips to accelerate your productivity back to where it needs to be: Get Ahead of Your Calendar – [...]
8 Guidelines To Minimize Your Email
Share When you get back to work from a weekend do you suddenly have hundreds of emails waiting for you? Does your email multiply? Does it reproduce while you are asleep? Some people are convinced this is the only answer to explain the mountain of email that appears in their inbox. Where does all this [...]
5 Swift Tips to Help Empty Your Inbox
Share Pop Quiz: How many emails are currently in your inbox? Be honest. 10? 20? 50? 200? More? A colleague I recently spoke with had 2300+ email messages in their inbox. A large percentage unread and unanswered. At that point your email has become an ineffective means of communication. You read stories of people declaring [...]
The Best Dead Simple Way to Start Your Day
Share Do you have a routine for starting your day? Most people have one, but if yours involves pressing the snooze button 4-5 times, you may need to think about a more effective way to start your day. Today, I want to talk about routines for starting the day. Specifically, how to plan and prepare [...]
Why You Don’t Really Need it Now
Share In a world where people tend to ignore deadlines and many tasks/projects are finished late, why do people continue to assault our time? Why do they interrupt us with urgent requests? Why do they need it now? How often do our priorities get derailed due to some one’s immediate demands on our time? I was [...]
TMN’s 9 Laws for Work Email
Share There has been much discussion lately about email etiquette and email rules. Everyone has experienced someone who can’t seem to abide by email standards. Then it hit me… where are the standards? (Well, yes, there are always etiquette standards. Those are the socially accepted norms.) But, does your company have published email usage standards? [...]
Email – Only 5 lines?
Share If you Twitter a lot… you know that every character counts. 140 is not a lot to say. So, you find yourself omitting words, leaving out spaces, changing before to b4, etc. I wonder how much Twitter is changing our current langauge/communication styles? Simple words like “very” are replacing fancy words like “extremely.” Poor [...]
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