It’s almost reflexive. You pick up your phone and you immediately check your email. The question I want to look at today is about checking email too much…and a better way.
I’ve had a terrible email habit. I think it stemmed from FOMO, but I would check my email around 20 times a day. Waiting in line? Check my email. Cooking dinner? Check my email. Walking the dog? Check my email. And even though I would act on those emails immediately, by filing, deleting or sending to my task system, I knew that I was still taking far too much time with email. It had become a bad habit to constantly check.
So what can we do?
