How to survive the email flood? - MES018

Everybody has his limit in handling emails. For one 10 per day are too much, another handles 150 without any problems. But sooner or later, everybody of us have to declare: it's too much. I have had a time in my life in which I have had to handle 750 mails per day in average. Nobody can say that this is possible to do. But that was the time I started a very strict and consequent filtering and categorization. However it still was too much. The combination of importance and urgency was back-breaking. In the first part of this episode I will show you some of the most successful approaches how to handle the flood of emails daily arriving in your inbox. There are different concepts, sometimes even contradicting systems, but give them a try and find the most acceptable way for you. But if you're in the same situation as I was, even the most sophisticated approaches to handle the flood, weren't succeeding, then you might be interested in the 2nd part of this episode. This summer I stumbled over the book of Rory Vaden "Procrastinate on Purpose: 5 Permissions to Multiply Your Time"". Rory was welcome as guest in the Art of Charm Podcast His book was an eye-opener. I do not agree with everything Rory has written, however the major part, the introduction of a 3rd dimension, was essential. If importance and urgency are the first two dimensions, significance becomes the 3rd dimension.