Email is a great way for other people to put their priorities into your life.
Their priorities are NOT yours.
An email from them is NOT an obligation on me.
An email from someone is a tax on your time. But time is all you have.
Control your inbox, your attention, and your actions – stay on your priorities.
It’s ok to ignore, delete and block – quickly.
People I care about have my phone number.
PRICELESS!!! I tell my Team something similar to this routinely – especially my Office Manager who brokers work for the Team and helps me set priorities for items coming into our AOR.
Something hot coming off someone else’s desk doesn’t mean it’s hot when it lands on mine – it just means it was the hottest thing THEY had…
Lots of things ‘cool off’ in transit.
Thanks, Larry! Good luck in Baja!!
Enjoy the shared experience with the good friends going with you and the new ones you meet! 🙂
Well said! In fact, I delete most emails without opening them. I have a certain group of people that I communicate with and recognize. If it’s in our group, I’ll respond every time. That doesn’t mean I’ll fulfill their priority though. I won’t answer my phone to talk to someone else if I’m on the line already talking to someone. I don’t believe in stopping one thing to do something else just to need to return to the original thing I was doing. To me, you win by doing one task to its completion at a time!
Best advice ever! If I read all my emails, I would do nothing else. Except these thinkdaily emails of course 🙂
I’m not an employee of yours or a close friend, but you and Kathy R have always replied to my e-mails. Thank you!