Checking email less often

If you spend your day working on priorities that others have set for you (email) then you aren’t really focused on moving ahead with your own goals and priorities. Email is letting others control your time.

I like how Hailley encourages checking email a few times a day. My problem with systems like this is my inability to stick to the planned schedule. I’ve tried this numerous times but always come back to checking sporadically throughout the day.

And if there’s a particularly important email I’m anticipating I might check hundreds of times. It’s a problem I’ve tried to solve, but old habits always creep back in.

Via Hailley Griffis.