Warning: The following video contains a statistic about email that some viewers may find disturbing.
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6.3 hours—what do those 6.3 hours represent?
Is that the amount of productive time we spend each and every day with our most important work?
No.
Is that the amount of quality sleep we get each and every night?
No.
6.3 hours represents the average amount of time we spend checking email each and every day.
I hope that scares you just a little bit, because it certainly scares me.
6.3 hours represents one third of our waking hours and that certainly doesn't leave us much time for anything else.
What do 6.3 hours of checking email each and every day look...
How long do you spend checking email
Like.
Well, it looks something like this.
Spread out over a 16-hour day, a 16-hour waking day, it looks something like this.
From the time that we leave our bed to the time we return in the evening, we are checking our email frequently, and I would argue much too constantly.
Look at this image.
There's not much time for anything else.
There are just slivers of time here, there, and everywhere to have those quality conversations with your customers or with your employees.
Where is the time to have some really good strategic meetings or some time just to think for yourself as to what's the next big thing, what's the new project you should be focusing your attention on next?
No, by checking email 6.3 hours each and every day, it leads to an awful lot of unfocused work, and we don't have much time left over for more important things.
I'm sure you know the routine.
How many hours is too much
Start your morning and you flip through your inbox as you're sitting at the breakfast table.
You either drive to your office or maybe you sit down at your home office.
And the first thing you do is open up your inbox.
Too many of us leave that inbox open.
Even when we take a break, we open up our smartphone and start sifting through more email.
And the cycle continues on and on and on as we're checking email throughout the entire day.
Well, I don't...
What would your day look like
I don't want your day to look something like this.
I hope that you're currently not spending this much time on email, but if you are, I hope to motivate you to spend that much less time with your inbox.
What would your day look like?
How much more could you accomplish if you dealt with email only three or four times a day?
If you only dealt with email once in the morning, once in the afternoon, and once in the evening, how much more could you accomplish?
How much quicker could you get to those big projects and meet those important deadlines?
It's not going to happen overnight, but you can achieve much less time dealing with your email.
Question
So in the comments below, I would like you to answer the following question:
What would you do if you spent half as much time with your email?
If you spent only three hours a day checking email, what would you do with that additional time?
Write your answer in the comments below.
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