Email is not urgent

The biggest contributor to stress is feeling out of control. Email is one area many people feel out of control. In this track I talk about shifting how you think about email as part of a strategy to regain that sense of control. A text version of this track was first published in June 2012 and edited in April 2017. This post was added to the Email Overwhelm series in 2021.You can find the text post at: JoVanEvery.co.uk/email-is-not-urgent.Other posts in the series:• jovanevery.co.uk/collective-email-overwhelm/• jovanevery.co.uk/not-contributing-to-other-peoples-email-overwhelm/• jovanevery.co.uk/email-is-not-urgent/• jovanevery.co.uk/dealing-with-email-is-not-a-task/• jovanevery.co.uk/managing-email-when-youve-rapidly-switched-to-remote-working/• jovanevery.co.uk/email-sign-offsFollow me on Twitter: twitter.com/JoVanEveryFind my Facebook Page here: facebook.com/JoVEAcademicCareerCoachJoin the Academic Writing Studio: academicwritingstudio.co.ukFor more advice, support and perspectives like this, sign up to my free monthly newsletter: https://jovanevery.co.uk/newsletter To find out how short chunks of time can revolutionise your writing, take the FREE 15 Minute Writing Challenge course: https://jovanevery.co.uk/15-min-writing-challenge/ Or join the Academic Writing Studio community: https://academicwritingstudio.co.uk  Support me on KoFi here: https://ko-fi.com/jovanevery  I'm no longer on Twitter, but I'm on Bluesky here: https://bsky.app/profile/jovanevery.bsky.social Find me on Linked In here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jovanevery/  Or follow along on Facebook here: https://facebook.com/JoVEAcademicCareerCoach