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Want One EXTRA Hour Every Day?
Try my ‘Four Hour Workweek‘ strategy…
Last week, I finally bought Tim Ferriss‘ book, “The Four-Hour Workweek” – and read it through in one long sitting.
A lot of it I’m doing already – and it was validation that I’m not alone!
One important point I picked up (and am trying out) is his advice to check email no more often than ONCE A WEEK!
While I have gone down to once a day in the past, I haven’t thought of being so ‘radical’ – and thought it a nice ‘challenge’. As a first step, I’ve started checking email no more frequently than 3 times in a day – a steep drop from the 3 or 4 times an hour while I was online!
Surprisingly enough, this alone has saved me an HOUR every day.
What did I do in that time?
Read story books. And browsed blogs. Last week alone, I’ve read 4 Perry Mason novels, 1 P.G.Wodehouse book, an Enid Blyton story (my daughter’s) and some magazines I subscribe to.
Ineffective. Waste of time. Silly.
I hear you. Maybe even agree.
But think about it – this was time I was wasting ANYWAY… just flipping through emails ineffectively!
At least now I’m doing something I enjoy, while weaning myself off the habit of compulsively checking email. Once the ‘habit’ is broken, I can focus on using the time more productively.
What small change have you made that boosted effectiveness?
What would you do if you had an extra hour every day?
Or three? (That’s the title of my next book, “Your 27 Hour Day” – http://www.your27hourday.com
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Nothing wrong with reading for an hour a day. Better for your eyes than staring at a monitor.
If the “quality”of the books seems like a waste of time, consider this: doesn’t it benefit you to allow your mind the freedom to wander, be entertained, and observe life from various perspectives — including fictional ones?
Really the fact you shared in here works out… Keep the work going on….
I need to decrease the frequency with which I check email, for sure. One thing that has definitely saved me a lot of time is using gmail. It handles spam very well and searching, sorting, and filtering is a lot faster.
Since I really don’t have to delete anything, I don’t have to waste time thinking about what I want to keep and what I want to delete. I can just archive it. That has been a big time saver.
If I ever need to reference anything, a quick keyword search gets me exactly what I need.
Excellent ideas to reduce time wasted on emails…the unimportant ones that dramatically cut into the time I have to work on my projects. Why do I read them? Cause I am nosy and think I might miss something!
In fact I AM definitely missing out on something…time that could be put to better use. It doesn’t matter whether it is doing something that I want to do or even getting a task done that I have been putting off for a while. It is still using my time in a more productive manner…and THAT is going to make me feel a whole lot better.
Have a great day everyone!
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