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More Time for You: A Powerful System to Organize Your Work and Get Things Done
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More Time for You: A Powerful System to Organize Your Work and Get Things Done

by Rosemary Tator, Alesia Latson
August 2010
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
5h 4m
English
AMACOM
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REDUCING E-MAIL VOLUME

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

—DR. LAURENCE J. PETER

You can do a number of things to reduce the amount of e-mail you receive:

• Unsubscribe.

• Create a delete rule.

• Create rules for projects and people.

• Tell people you’re making changes in your e-mail practices.

Taking the time to diminish the amount of incoming e-mail will have an immediate payoff. Try some of these methods to reduce the size of your inbox.

TIP 1: UNSUBSCRIBE

When you see an e-mail message in your inbox that you don’t want to read or keep, take the thirty seconds it takes to unsubscribe. If you can’t take those thirty seconds, create an “unsubscribe” folder and drag the message ...

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ISBN: 9780814416471