Time Management Tip - Cut back on checking your email inbox

Checking your inbox for incoming electronic mails from time to time is not really a healthy habit especially if you are about to finish something or you are reaching a goal.

Keep the checking into a minimum and allow yourself to work and do away with your email. Little did you know that by just checking your email, let’s say every hour, would actually cost you too much time and would therefore delay you in meeting your deadline or in reaching your goal.

Time Management Tip - Cut back on checking your email inbox

How can it cause delay on your job or tasks to be done?

This is because by checking your email almost every hour a day, there is a big tendency that you lose the concentration you have on your job. Your focus will be lost and you will be distracted by the emails that have been arriving to your inbox.

I know how some of your friends would forward letters, jokes, greeting cards and even just a simple message and just by reading those, you are actually wasting your precious time. Try to think the time you have spent in reading each email, digesting what the email is all about and then decide whether to reply to the said mail or choosing who to forward the mail to.

By just doing those things, you can now waste about 30 minutes to an hour, depending on how long the email is and how long you allow yourself to be diverted. The 30 minutes to an hour that you’ve spent on your email alone can let you finish more important tasks already so, do limit yourself.

Also, I know how disturbing it is when your attention can quickly be diverted to another thing. Try to imagine, you are writing an article about food supplements and their benefits and then when you checked your email, someone has sent you a message about the cons of taking food supplements. Try to imagine what would happen to you. Would you still want to continue with the article or would you have doubts with the one you are currently writing? See the power of one new email have? Just one message can make you stay out of focus and delay you from completing your task.

Checking your inbox for incoming electronic mails from time to time is not really a healthy habit especially if you are about to finish something or you are reaching a goal. Keep the checking into a minimum and allow yourself to work and do away with your email. Little did you know that by just checking your email, let’s say every hour, would actually cost you too much time and would therefore delay you in meeting your deadline or in reaching your goal.

Time Management Tip 1- Cut back on checking your email inbox

How can it cause delay on your job or tasks to be done?

This is because by checking your email almost every hour a day, there is a big tendency that you lose the concentration you have on your job. Your focus will be lost and you will be distracted by the emails that have been arriving to your inbox. I know how some of your friends would forward letters, jokes, greeting cards and even just a simple message and just by reading those, you are actually wasting your precious time.

Try to think the time you have spent in reading each email, digesting what the email is all about and then decide whether to reply to the said mail or choosing who to forward the mail to. By just doing those things, you can now waste about 30 minutes to an hour, depending on how long the email is and how long you allow yourself to be diverted. The 30 minutes to an hour that you’ve spent on your email alone can let you finish more important tasks already so, do limit yourself.

Also, I know how disturbing it is when your attention can quickly be diverted to another thing. Try to imagine, you are writing an article about food supplements and their benefits and then when you checked your email, someone has sent you a message about the cons of taking food supplements.

Try to imagine what would happen to you. Would you still want to continue with the article or would you have doubts with the one you are currently writing? See the power of one new email have? Just one message can make you stay out of focus and delay you from completing your task.

When is the best time to check your inbox, read mails and answer or forward it to somebody else?

Well, first thing to put to mind is to teach yourself to check your email at the maximum of two times a day only. Do not exceed the number indicated and it is also much better if you just check it once a day. The best time for you to do this is during the start of your day or during the night when you are about to sleep. And when you do check your mail, answer first everything that needs to be answered and after that you can now have the freedom to forward some of it and read the irrelevant ones.

Checking, reading, answering and forwarding your email once or twice a day is very beneficial for you. You can really save up your time and I bet, you will be surprised by how much time you will actually win if you restrict yourself in opening your email inbox from time to time.