This next tip again, it's easy to say, it's hard. It's really hard to get into the habit of Tim Ferriss of the wildly successful four hour workweek, claims that he only checks his email once a day. And he has an automatic email responder that tells people that and it sets expectations. If you can limit yourself to checking email once a day, power to you, I take my hat off to you. Now, that's difficult for most people, especially if you work in a corporate environment and your boss expects you to get back. Maybe not within five minutes, but within an hour when you send an email.
There can be challenges there. But for many, many people, if you have your own business, home business, consulting business, you really can discipline yourself and the people who interact with you to not expect instantaneous emails. sponses Once that happens, you can then discipline yourself to have to set times maybe you check your email at 10am. Give yourself 10 or 15 minutes. And then you check your email again at say three o'clock, or 415. And you allocate 10 or 15 minutes, and you don't look at it the rest of the day, you will give yourself so much more productivity.
Because you won't have all these switching costs. You're going from a memo, checking your email, it takes your brain away, you're lost. It takes a while to get back to that memo. You're listening to someone in the meeting and it's important. You're going to email now you're lost because you're focused on that. highly productive people don't let their email control now they don't stay in a reactive mode email all day long.
It's proactive. It's on purpose and it's on their time. Frame their agenda. You can ignore everything else in this course if you just follow this one principle, your productivity is going to score is going to skyrocket and soar because you will not be losing all this switching time in your brain all day long doing what so many people do is check their email constantly. Stop it. You're not working harder, you're not being productive.
You're just being a little rat hitting that button for more cheese.