Hi, Scott Friesen here at Simpletivity. I want to thank you for all of your comments and questions on my last video.
It's been great to see people get so excited about spending less time with their email. You know, for nearly a decade, I've been helping people be more effective and efficient with their workday, and that's exactly what I want for you.
I want you to be at your productive best, and sometimes it's email that gets in the way of our most productive day. On average, we spend 6.3 hours checking email each and every day, and that doesn't leave an awful lot of time for our most important work or our most important projects.
In my last video, I showed you how to get through a large number of emails in just a matter of minutes. I showed you how to quickly identify which messages deserve your attention and then get rid of everything else so that you can reference it later but get it out of your inbox.
Managing Email Folders
Now, one of the most common questions I received was, Scott, what is the best way to manage all of my email folders? Well, this is a fantastic question, and I get this quite frequently.
We tend to waste an awful lot of time and energy managing all of our folders, subfolders, and subfolders of subfolders as we try to deal with all of our email, and it's simply not necessary. Here's why.
The search capability in your email application is far too powerful for you to categorize and label every single message that hits your inbox. In fact, you shouldn't need to search more than two times to find the exact message that you're looking for.
So don't waste your time dragging and dropping every single message into a new folder or labeling a new category. Start using search to find your email.
If you have further questions or comments, I would encourage you to add them in the comment section below. I'd be happy to answer them in an upcoming video.
Now, I want you to think about more than just email. I know I've been talking about spending less time in email, but this is really about spending more time elsewhere.
Spend More Time Elsewhere
What else could you accomplish today? What else could you do if you spent half as much time in your inbox?
How many more projects could you complete this month? How many more quality conversations could you have with a customer or maybe someone else on your team?
Remember, the less time we spend with email gives us more time to spend elsewhere. In my very next video, I have something special to share with you.
Learn More
I'm about to release the Own Your Inbox online training course. That's right, I've put together everything that I've learned and everything that I've taught over the past 10 years about email management and about spending less time with email in a single course.
Now, I want you to spend so much less time with email that I've decided to offer the Own Your Inbox program at a very special price. But I won't be able to keep it at that price for very long.
So if you would like to learn more, be sure to subscribe right here to the Simpletivity YouTube channel or join our email list at simpletivity.com. And if you have further questions or comments, be sure to include them in the section below.
Remember, being productive does not need to be difficult. In fact, it's very simple.
