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Hitting The Reset Button on Digital Clutter

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Ethan Waldman of Cloud Coach. In the offline world, I own too much stuff, and keep even more of it around. Long after these things are no longer serving me, I still lovingly store them and keep them out of guilt, fear, or obligation. In the digital world, I don’t seem [...]

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Your Wheelhouse (In or Out of your Inbox)

I’ve used Email Triage many times since I bought it to cope with email overwhelm, before I was working directly with Productive Flourishing. On a practical basis, it’s been a life saver. In addition to the practical aspect, however, it helped me discover several ways of dealing with the emotional aspect of email processing, including [...]

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Why Working From Your Email Inbox Doesn’t Work

Many people work from their email inbox, but it doesn’t really work. This article addresses why it doesn’t work and provides a couple of alternatives.

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How To Write Brief Emails Without Being A Jerk

“I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.” – Mark Twain At a certain point, you won’t be able to process email the way you used to. I want to be very clear that it’s not a matter of choice – you really won’t be able to [...]

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How Best-By Dates Make Us More Effective

Have you ever had someone ask you to do something and you didn’t do it “in time” because they didn’t tell you when they needed it done? Have you ever been frustrated when somebody didn’t get back to you “in time,” even when you didn’t tell them when you wanted them to get back to [...]

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Build Daily Momentum Using The 10/15 Split

Raise your hand if you’ve recognized too late in the day that you haven’t been doing the stuff that really matters, only to freak out, get overwhelmed, and resolve to work longer and harder – while still doing the same kinds of things that you just beat yourself up about doing. Don’t worry, if I [...]

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Screencast: How Concentrate Helps You Focus and Interrupt Habits

[If you're reading this via email or RSS, you might have to click through to see the video.] In a previous post, I talked about the application Concentrate and how it’s great at helping you interrupt the counter-productive habits you’ve formed. In today’s screencast, I show you how this works and how easy it is [...]

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2 Gmail Features That’ll Make You More Effective

Enabling these two features of Gmail makes managing email a lot easier. This screencast shows you how to enable these features and why they’re so useful.

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Inbox Zero Is Overrated

How many clothes are in your hamper right now? Are you desperately trying to make sure that not a single dirty sock is sitting in there? Unless you’re OCD or running low on underwear, you’re probably not too concerned about the clothes sitting unattended in your hamper – I’d have very little traction advocating a [...]

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