Mission Critical Time Saving Habits

Elaine just sent me some useful time-saving tips from Tim Ferris:

Nine (and growing) stressful and common habits that entrepreneurs and office workers should strive to eliminate. Mission critical stuff!

1. Do not answer calls from unrecognized phone numbers
2. Do not e-mail first thing in the morning or last thing at night
3. Do not agree to meetings or calls with no clear agenda or end time
4. Do not let people ramble
5. Do not check e-mail constantly. Batch and check at set times only
6. Do not over-communicate with low-profit, high-maintenance customers
7. Do not work more to fix overwhelm - prioritize
8. Do not carry a cellphone or Crackberry 24/7, seven days a week
9. Do not expect work to fill a void that non-work relationships and activities should

I have 357 emails in my inbox this morning, and my finger is eerily drawn to the "mark all as read button".

p.s. One other thing that I'm doing to reduce inbox clutter- unsubscribing from all email newsletters, and switching to RSS instead (those that are RSS enabled, that is).

Comments

[Henre]

I've been doing number 1 even when I had no responsibilities and plenty of time years ago. Paranoia?? Perhaps. ;-)

Seriously though, good points. Online created some issues ito time management.

1. E-mails
2. IM
3. Skype calls and messages
4. Blog responses
5. Feed Readers - read an interesting article on Feedhub (answer to information overload) from Robert Scoble - not enough attention to elaborate though.
6. Twitter Updates
7. Facebook updates
8. Other Social updates, including those to your mobile - if you have that option set.

And then, to top it all, the offline calamity.

1. People bugging you in your office consistently.
2. Telephone calls.
3. Employers shouting. lol

The more you network, the more frequent these will be. Smart time management is essential. Critical.

Is this possible?

[Stii]

"I have 357 emails in my inbox this morning, and my finger is eerily drawn to the “mark all as read button�."

Funny thing, but I read the other day that they recommend to relieve stress you should DELETE all your unread emails. As they reckon, if it is important it will be sent again anyway...

[Dave]

Henre: It's getting out of hand! I'm dedicating myself wholeheartedly to better time and knowledge management - esp. with regards to kiff web apps that can help. I'll be sharing my journey on the blog. Let's see...

Stii: Jor! I'm brave, but not THAT brave. At least if I mark as unread I can still find them later!

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