People complain about all the e-mail they receive, and how much work it is for them to handle. And it is true, the number of e-mails being sent is definitely on the increase.The reality is there are quite a number of things that you can do, personally, to keep your e-mails to a minimum. Here are a few tips: Be very clear. By making sure that the content of your e-mails is very understandable, you can avoid people e-mailing you with questions. Taking a small amount of time on the front end to read through the e-mail you are about to send can go a long way in avoiding a return question.
Make the subject line detailed. By including detailed information in the subject lines,
your recipients will be able to sort and respond with the right priority. The detailed
subject line will also help YOU sort and handle responses because you know exactly
what the item and tails.
Use only one subject per e-mail. The reality is that most people skim. If you put two
requests in one e-mail, there is a strong likelihood that only one of the requests will be
responded to. It is more effective to send two e-mails with different subjects, than to
incorporate two subjects into one e-mail. This practice is also helpful for people who
want to file the messages.
Place the main point, assignment, or request in the first two lines of the e-mail. People have a tendency to build up to a conclusion when they write; this tendency makes it very difficult, at times, for readers to figure out what the main issue or request is. By putting your main point in the first two sentences, you can avoid misinterpretations and get readers focused on exactly what you want, right from the get-go.
Copy only the people who read the need the message. For every extraneous person copied on an e-mail, you have potential to receive a response. Not only are they getting extra e-mail, but it is likely that they will return with a response.
Resist getting involved in threads that are not related to your work. It could be that the sender copied you extraneously on an e-mail. Before you respond, consider its relative importance to your position and your work. Once you respond, you have put yourself in the game.
Place only one name in the subject line, if assigning work. When multiple names are shown in the subject line, the recipients many times assume that is the other person who will handle the work. This is a great way to get nothing done. By assigning one person to the subject line, it is very clear that you are expecting that person to respond. And, oh by the way, if that person is the wrong person, he or she will tell you very quickly.
Send less e-mail. While this may seem a no-brainer, e-mail begets e-mail. Sometimes it is better and easier to pick up the phone, or to just not respond.
Have a detailed signature line. By having all of your contact information in the signature line of every e-mail you send, you will in able the proper form of
communication. As an example, someone may want to call you, but not have your telephone number. So, they will respond to your e-mail instead. A complete signature line will save others extra work, and may save you an e-mail that requires your response.
Use voting buttons. If you need to ask several people a yes no question, use the voting buttons that are in your e-mail program. The e-mail program summarizes the responses, and reduces the amount of time you need to spend coordinating the information.
Make it a group standard to use the electronic calendar. When everyone places all of their appointments in the electronic calendar, it makes it very easy for people to schedule meetings. This avoids e-mails going back and forth with questions such as, quote are you available next Wednesday at 2:00 p.m.?”
Avoid controversial or argumentative e-mailing. When you engage in an emotional discussion via e-mail, the e-mails will fly. And most likely, and get more heated. Emotional issues should never be handled by e-mail; a phone call or person to person handling of the situation is best.
Create a company or group blog or chat room. When you are going to be requesting feedback and opinions, a blog or a chat room is much more effective at showing each person’s feedback all in one place than trying to coordinate opinion responses from multiple respondents.
While each one of these may save only a small amount of time, or may reduce your e-mail only by a few, collectively, they have potential to help you control the number of the e-mails you receive. E-mail is here to stay; the sooner you develop productive habits regarding its use, the more time you will have for what is really important in your life.
For more information, please visit www.eganemailsolutions.com.
Marsha Egan, CPCU, PCC, is CEO of the Egan Group, Inc., Reading PA. An ICF Certified Professional Coach, she is a leading authority on email productivity. She works with forward thinking organizations who want a profit-rich email culture. Her recently released ebooks, Help! I’ve Fallen into My Inbox and Can’t Climb Out! Five Email Self management Strategies that Will Add Hours to Your Week and Reclaim Your Workplace Email Productivity: Add BIG BUCKS to Your Bottom Line can be found at http://eganemailsolutions.com.
There’s no arguing that email use is on the rise. Everyday, people tell me how overwhelming it is to address their email backlog and how just opening up their inbox stresses them out. To help remedy this crisis, here are ten surefire ways to manage your outgoing email to reduce the number of emails coming back your way.
1. Be very clear. By making sure that the content of your emails is very understandable, you can avoid people emailing you with questions for clarification.
2. Make the subject line detailed. By including detailed information in the subject lines, your recipients will be able to sort and respond to your message with the right priority. The detailed subject line will also help YOU sort and handle responses.
3. Use only one subject per email. The reality is that most people skim. If you put two requests in one email, there is a strong likelihood that only one of the requests will be responded to.
4. Place the main point, assignment, or request in the first two lines of the email. People have a tendency to build up to a conclusion when they write; this tendency makes it very difficult for readers to figure out what the main issue or request is. By putting your main point in the first two sentences, you can avoid misinterpretations and get readers focused on exactly what you want, right from the get-go.
5. Copy only the people who need to read the message. For every extraneous person copied on an email, you have potential to receive a response. Now, you’ve just created more unnecessary email for the both of you!
6. Send less email. While this may seem a no-brainer, email begets email. Sometimes it is better and easier to pick up the phone, or to just not respond.
7. Have a detailed signature line. Make sure that all of your contact information is in the signature line of every email you send. This way, anyone who needs to contact you won’t have to email you asking for your address, fax number, etc.
8. Keep emails short. When you send short, easy-to-read messages, people will respond in the same manner.
9. Avoid controversial or argumentative emailing. When you engage in an emotional discussion via email, the emails will fly. Emotional issues should never be handled by email; a phone call or person to person handling of the situation is best, both for the sake of your inbox, and the health of the office dynamic.
10. Purge! Purge! Purge! People don’t realize that too many megabytes can cripple, slow, or even crash their hard drives. Systematic deletions of out-of-date items and purging your sent mail can help you stay ahead of the curve and protect your computer.
Email is here to stay; the sooner you develop productive habits regarding its use, the more time you will have for what is really important in your life.
Marsha Egan, CPCU, PCC, is CEO of the Egan Group, Inc., Reading PA. An ICF Certified Professional Coach, she is a leading authority on email productivity. She works with companies who want to recover lost time and money due to wasteful email practices. More helpful hints can be found at her website, http://EganEmailSolutions.com and her blog, http://inboxdetox.blogspot.com
We’ve all done it. The meeting is going on and on. Your boss is rambling. You “get” the gist of the concept. You’re bored. Your mind drifts. Hmmm. Wonder what newfound treasure has appeared in my PDA? Who will notice if you sneak a peak?
Your boss will. Others in the meeting will. Don’t do it. You could be committing career suicide.
Robert Half & Associates recently conducted a study of 150 senior executives, which showed that 31 percent of them found it inappropriate for employees to check PDAs during meetings. Despite this finding, 86 percent of the senior executives polled had witnessed people engaging in this behavior.
So, if nearly one out of three execs in the study saw that behavior as inappropriate, the odds are against you. And the others in the meeting, who could be future executives, could also have an impact on your professional future.
Behavior in meetings can be career enhancing or career busting. People draw conclusions about people’s leadership styles, preparedness, communication, and value by how they participate in meetings.
So if you want to short cut your career, just pull out that PDA.
Why can the quick check of that PDA be so hurtful?
Consider this. We’ve all been in conversations with people who look elsewhere while talking with us. It’s irritating because it appears that they’re looking for someone more important to meet, or just plain aren’t focused on the conversation at hand. It’s rude. Translating this to the sneak check of the Blackberry, we’ve just done the same thing. We’ve taken our focus off the subject at hand effectively insulting the party running the meeting or the person across the table.
PDAs are no different from any other new technology, and guidelines as to expectations and usage must be set. The constant access provided by PDAs means that they can easily lead us to become consumed by work during all hours. By not encouraging people to maintain a good work-life balance, productivity suffers, and employees become so involved in responding to messages that they may act in ways that can be career-damaging – and potentially even hazardous. Checking and responding in meetings is not the only PDA career blunder. Here are some others:
* Placing the PDA on the meeting or dining table
* Having sound reminders that go off while in meetings or public events
* Having long sound reminder themes that play loudly – no one needs to hear a full song every time you receive an email
* Reading email while attempting to have a conversation
* Playing videos and other sounds loudly
* Typing while you are walking or driving
If you follow a clear set of guidelines, however, PDA technology becomes a powerful ally that can enhance your career:
* Show respect for meeting organizers and avoid annoying your colleagues by turning off your PDA before the meeting starts and keeping it out of sight.
* If you waiting for an urgent call or email, inform the meeting organizer in advance that you may have excuse yourself for a moment to attend to an urgent matter.
* When in a meeting, having a one-to-one conference, or at a restaurant, do not put the PDA on the table or check it in the middle of a conversation – it gives the impression that the PDA is more important than with the subject at hand.
* When you need to type a message, excuse yourself and find a private place to do it.
* Set the ring tone volume only as high as you absolutely need, and avoid ring themes that are lengthy or annoying.
* Turn all ring tones off when the lights go down whether you’re at the movies, at a concert, or at any other a public event.
* Take control of your PDA, not the other way around. Decide when you are going to turn it off so that you can focus on your family, your hobby, or your spouse – and leave it off.
* Never text while driving. Never check or read email while driving. Never search your address book for contacts while driving. The consequences could be devastating – and not just for you.
As with any other tool, when used with appropriate guidelines, PDAs have the potential to increase efficiency and productivity. But if you’re not careful, the constant connectivity they provide can quickly become all-consuming and career limiting. Managing your career means managing the impressions others have of your abilities and values. Respect for others is a leadership trait universally admired.
Do yourself a favor. Keep the Blackberry out of sight and out of mind during meetings.
Marsha Egan, CPCU, PCC, is CEO of the Egan Group, Inc., Reading PA. An ICF Certified Professional Coach, she is a leading authority on email productivity. She works with forward thinking organizations that want a profit-rich email culture. Her email productivity tips can be found at http://EganEmailSolutions.com
If your employees were all taking two-hour lunches, wouldn’t you address it? The majority of businesses, worldwide, are suffering substantial productivity drains from a correctable source — an hour or more daily per worker — and most businesses don’t even know it.
In these trying economic times, we are all looking for opportunities to save costs and increase productivity. Businesses have a huge opportunity to increase productivity staring them in the face that unfortunately has gone virtually undetected.
What is that opportunity? The reclaimed productivity comes from changed e-mail habits. You think I kid? The research firm Basex recently estimated the cost of information overload to the world economy $900 billion annually. E-mail handling habits are among the top offenders.
Have you ever stopped to observe or consider what your organization’s e-mail culture is? How do your employees use e-mail? How do they manage it? How do they send it? How do they save it? The habits they adopt, whether they are positive or negative, can be contagious and suddenly your business has its own e-mail culture.
Habits? Contagious? When you consider how many impressions e-mail messages have all in each person in your organization daily, you can quickly understand how e-mail practices can become cultural and pervasive.
Here is just one example of how an e-mail culture can evolve. A boss realizes that he needs to call an urgent meeting with 3 of his managers. He sends an e-mail calling the meeting to start in the next 15 minutes. Two of the three see the e-mail and respond. The third, who was working on an important project, did not have his e-mail open, missed the meeting, and angered his boss.
Number three has just now learned that he can never turn his e-mail off for fear of missing an important e-mail. But it doesn’t stop here. It rolls downhill. The three managers have now been given “permission” to use e-mail as an URGENT delivery system. They use it in their departments, and very quickly, the entire organization is infected with this virus. No one can turn off his or her e-mail for fear of missing something vital. Employees become slaves to the “brinnng” or the flash of a newly arrived e-mail message and stop productive work anytime an e-mail comes in, even if it’s just spam.
And that’s just one example. Think of the practices of copying ten extra people, just so no one, even those only remotely interested in the topic, is missed. Or how about using e-mail as a chat room with multiple recipients to attempt dialogue? Or how about using e-mail to critique someone’s performance? One person does it, others do it. Culture is changed. Productivity is sapped. Your bottom-line is impacted negatively.
E-mail can be extremely costly if not used effectively. When you consider the average recovery time from any interruption is about 4 minutes, you can imagine the cost to your organization when people look up every time an e-mail is received. Do the math. If you stop what you’re doing every time you receive an e-mail and get (only) 30 e-mails in one day, that equals 120 minutes of recovery time—two hours of waste! And that doesn’t include the time spent handing the e-mail. Now multiply that by every employee, everyday, and you can see how productivity and profitability can seriously begin to drop.
The compound impact can be startling. Reclaiming one hour daily for a 20 person department enables a net productivity gain of 100 hours per week! Reclaiming even one half-hour daily per employee enables a net gain of 50 hours per week. In either case, at least one full headcount can be reclaimed — and that is for a small 20 person office.
While the remedies are simple to understand, they can be challenging to infuse because they require changing habits, and changing culture. But the returns can be huge. Here are some of the actions that can bring your organization the greatest returns.
Shift to checking e-mail infrequently. To instantly combat this loss of productivity, give everyone in your organization “permission” to turn off auto-receive, and to check e-mail only 5 times daily – upon arrival, mid morning, after lunch, mid-afternoon, and half hour before end of day. Or, have them schedule e-mail deliveries every 90 to 120 minutes. This practice changes the number of interruptions from continual to only five to eight daily, in essence shortening recovery time to only about 30 minutes daily– a saving of 90 minutes added right back to your bottom line. The less frequently people check their inboxes, the more productive they can be. This one change alone could account for an hour or more of reclaimed productivity per worker per day.
Disallow urgent e-mails. NEVER use e-mail urgently. If there is an urgent matter or you need a response in less than 3 hours, encourage every employee to pick up the phone or walk down the hall. And honor this practice yourself. One urgent e-mail from the boss will teach workers that they can not close down their e-mail and must check it constantly. This “learning” essentially reinstates the continual interruptions you are trying to conquer.
Pick up the phone. The more e-mails that are sent, the more e-mails an employee will receive. E-mail is intended to share information, not to dialogue. If every worker considers the boomerang effect of every e-mail he or she sends, fewer e-mails will be sent. Picking up the phone to have dialogue is still a very effective business practice.
If you can infuse just these three habit changes among all of your coworkers, you will see a notable improvement in productivity.
Sometimes it is not just cost saving. Rather, if you can reclaim the productivity that has been lost because of a near pandemic of productivity sapping e-mail habits throughout organizations, you’ll see it in your bottom line. Consider the impact of getting 10%-20% more out of each worker? Now THAT’S what will re-energize the economy.
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More e-mail productivity strategies are in Inbox Detox (Acanthus Publishing, 2009) http://inboxdetox.com
4 minutes.
That’s how long Egan Email Solutions estimates it takes to recover after reading your e-mail. Multiplied by even 30 e-mails a day, that’s two hours of recovery time. CEO Marsha Egan insists e-mail should never be used as an urgent delivery system. Make a call if it’s that important. Additionally, she suggests, “Give everyone in your organization permission to turn off ‘auto receive,’ and instead schedule e-mail deliveries every 90 to 120 minutes.”
—David Bailey
Every time you let your email interrupt your productive work, it takes you an average of 4 minutes to get back on track. If in one day you let 15 emails derail you, you’ve just lost an hour of billable, productive time. Multiply that by every employee every day and you can see how office-wide unproductive email use can be an enormous drain on your profits.
Have you ever stopped to examine how do your employees use their email? How do they manage it, send it, and save it? The habits they adopt, both good and bad, can be contagious. Since email touches all of us several times a day, an office email culture evolves quickly.
Here is an example. A boss calls a meeting with 3 of his department managers. He sends an urgent email, needing a response within 15 minutes. One manager, who is working on an important project, does not have his email on, misses the request, and angers his boss.
This manager has just now learned that he cannot turn off his email, ever. But it doesn’t stop there; it rolls down the corporate ladder. All three managers now have “permission” to use email as an URGENT delivery system. They use it in their departments, and very quickly, the entire organization is infected. No one can turn off his or her email for fear of missing something vital. Employees become slaves to the “brinnng” and stop productive work anytime an email comes in.
This is just one example of email mis-use that plagues businesses. Think of the practices of copying everyone under the sun, just so you don’t miss someone. Or how about using email as a chat room with multiple recipients to resolve dilemmas? Or the slippery slope of using email to critique someone’s performance? One person does it, others do it. Culture is changed.
There are, however, certain practices you can instill into your employees to create a positive email culture. It requires strong leadership and change management efforts, but by following these methods, you and your employees will be able to reclaim more time, and improve your bottom line[ME1] :
- NEVER use email as an urgent delivery system. If the matter is urgent, pick up the phone or walk down the hall.
- Have everyone turn off “Automatic Send/Receive” and set “Receive intervals” to a minimum of 90 minutes. If someone is expecting an email, he or she can always hit receive manually.
- Move everything OUT OF your inbox. Your employees can manage their work better by putting emails in appropriate folders for easy reference later.
- Make Subject Lines be VERY specific. By including details in subject lines, you will help others sort and prioritize their work.
- Copy only the people who REALLY need to receive the email. Each superfluous cc will have to open and read the email, adding unnecessary tasks to their already full days.
For more best practices, or information about changing your office’s email culture, check out www.eganemailsolutions.com.
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People complain about all the e-mail they receive and how much work it is for them to handle. And it is true, the number of e-mails being sent is definitely on the rise and adds an incredible amount of work to our already overflowing plates.
The reality is there are quite a number of things that you can do, personally, to keep your e-mail distraction to a minimum and greatly improve your productivity. After all, the less email you receive, the less you will have to handle. Here are a few tips:
Be very clear. By making sure that the content of your e-mails is very understandable, you can avoid people e-mailing you with questions. Taking a small amount of time on the front end to read through the e-mail you are about to send can go a long way in avoiding a return question.
Make the subject line detailed. By including detailed information in the subject lines, your recipients will be able to sort and respond with the right priority. The detailed subject line will also help YOU sort and handle responses.
Use only one subject per e-mail. The reality is that most people skim. If you put two requests in one e-mail, there is a strong likelihood that only one of the requests will be responded to. It is more effective to send two e-mails with different subjects than to incorporate two subjects into one e-mail. This practice is also helpful for people who want to file the messages.
Copy only the people who need to read the message. For every extraneous person copied on an e-mail, you have potential to receive a response. Therefore, both parties lose productive time—they waste minutes in responding to you, and you waste time with their reply.
Send less e-mail. While this may seem a no-brainer, e-mail begets e-mail. Sometimes it is better and easier to pick up the phone, or to just not respond.
Have a detailed signature line. By having all of your contact information in the signature line of every e-mail you send, you enable efficient communication. If someone needs to call you, fax you, or mail you something, they will have the information they need and not bother you with an email requesting this contact material.
Use voting buttons. If you need to ask several people a yes or no question, use the voting buttons that are in your e-mail program. The e-mail program summarizes the responses, and reduces the amount of time you need to spend coordinating the information.
Make it a group standard to use the electronic calendar. When everyone places all of their appointments in the electronic calendar, they make it very easy for people to schedule meetings. This avoids e-mails going back and forth with questions such as, “are you available next Wednesday at 2:00 p.m.?”
Avoid controversial or argumentative e-mailing. When you engage in an emotional discussion via e-mail, the e-mails will fly. And most likely, they get heated. Emotional issues should never be handled by e-mail; a phone call or person to person handling of the situation is best—for time reasons, as well as office dynamics.
Create a company/group blog or chat room. When you are going to requesting feedback and opinions, a blog or a chat room is much more effective at showing each person’s response all in one place than trying to coordinate opinion responses from multiple emails.
While each one of these may save only a small amount of time and reduce your e-mail only by a few, collectively, they have potential to vastly improve your control over the number of e-mails you receive. E-mail is here to stay; the sooner you develop productive habits regarding its use, the more time you will have for what is really important in your life.
These tips were excerpted from Marsha Egan’s eBook Reclaim Your Workplace Email Productivity: Add BIG BUCKS to Your Bottom Line. For more information, please visit www.EganEmailSolutions.com.
The end of Daylight Savings Time is right around the corner and you know what that means: We’re all about to lose an hour!
Okay, okay, we don’t really “lose” an hour… but with the clocks being shifted back an hour it certainly feels like it. So, in response to the end of Daylight Savings Time, I’d like to propose that we begin Email Savings Time! This means that starting on November 6th, everyone reclaims an hour per day from their inbox by managing their email more effectively and efficiently.
I know at this point some people will say to themselves, “But Marsha, I don’t even spend that much time in my inbox. How can I even reclaim an hour per day from working on email?”
My answer would be that most people don’t even realize how much time they spend on email. Here are the facts: On a daily basis, knowledge workers (basically anyone who works on a computer) handle an average of about 110 emails. They spend roughly 25 percent of their time working on emails and visit their inbox 50 times per day. Over the course of a year, this adds up to 500 hours and 12,500 inbox visits per worker!
So with this in mind, let’s not lose an hour each day when Daylight Saving Time ends… let’s take back an hour (or more) with Email Savings Time. Here’s how to do it.
1) Check Your Inbox Five Times Daily (Or Less)
Shut down the entire inbox and open it a maximum of five specific times each day. In even the most demanding work offices, five inbox checks a day will allow you to open your inbox nearly every 90 minutes during an eight hour day. If someone needs something in sooner than 90 minutes, they should call.
2) Simplify Your Messages
First, make sure your writing is as clear and as concise as possible. Put the main points of your email in the first sentences and avoid abbreviations. Reduce back and forth emails by using “If/Then” statements and list a number of different options for your reader to choose from.
Second, pick up the phone more! Email is not a substitute for conversation. It’s a tool to share data. Before you click send, ask yourself if it will require more than two emails from you. If the answer is yes, pick up the phone and make the call.
3) Clean Out Your Inbox
The average worker gets about 110 emails a day. That means if you check your inbox five specific times a day you will have around 22 messages to “empty” each time. Emptying means that you delete each email or sort it into a folder where it can be easily retrieved later. Using this method you will be able to triage and streamline your email tasks, saving you time and sanity!
By using these three tips, any knowledge worker can reclaim at least an hour per day and boost their productivity. And while your co-workers may have to stay late to finish up a project, you’ll be taking off from the office early, enjoying the daylight, and reaping the benefits of Email Savings Time!
Some great tips by guest poster Miles Hall…
It’s amazing how reliant on email correspondence so many businesses have become in the last 20 years. Chances are that your small business uses email to correspond with clients and perhaps even for interoffice communication-you may even use the same address for your business and personal emails. So you can understand, especially as your business grows, why email management and email productivity might be important to you. Let’s dig a little deeper.
The Snowball Effect
If you’re not at a stage where your email is overwhelming you yet, take preventative measure to make sure that you don’t get to there. If you are at that stage, don’t fret—we’ll address how to fix it later. Let it be said that even though your inbox might not take that much time to manage right now, as time goes on you could be looking at a real headache if you don’t start preventative maintenance soon.
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A lot of professionals would recommend striving for an empty and organized inbox every time you sit down to look at your email. This doesn’t mean that you have to answer and respond to every message when you open your inbox. This means that you delete, file away, or respond to the message if it will only take a few minutes. Keep it organized so that you can revisit it later, and use less time sorting through your inbox to find that one specific email.
Decrease Distractions and Increase Productivity
In your quest for an empty inbox, you should not be checking every email the minute it comes in. Incoming emails can serve as distractions that will take you away from whatever it is that you were concentrating on before. The reality is that emails, even those marked urgent, can probably wait at least one to two hours to be read and responded to.
Try setting one or two times during the day to check your email (avoid checking it first thing in the morning, as that has been shown to decrease productivity), and actually turn off your inbox until those times. Every time you turn away from your work to check an email, think about how long it takes you to get back in the zone after you get back to work. That adds up. Decrease those distractions, and you will actually see a noticeable increase in productivity.
Try Alternatives to Email
If you are in an office where you and your employees use email as a primary mode of communication, try switching it up. If your employees need to make immediate contact with each other, or with clients try having them just use a phone. Leave a voice mail if needed. You might also try—and I say this cautiously—using an instant messaging system. Realize, however, that if abused, IMs might cause more distraction than they are worth.
Stay Efficient
Even if you are trying alternatives to email, there is almost no way that you will ever stop using email for communication—and I’m not saying you should, email is a great tool for communication. However, like most tools, if you wield email the wrong way you may end up hurting yourself in the end. Practice productive email techniques, such as keeping your emails short, only checking your emails once or twice a day, or even using certain apps that are out there, and you will run a productive small business.
Miles Hall loves writing about the business world. He contributes to businessbroker.net, and is primarily interested in businesses for sale.
Great article in LifeHacker exploding productivity myths click here:
Here they are, but read the whole article… Really!
Myth #1: You Have to Get Up Early To Accomplish Anything
Myth #2: Power Through Your Slumps
Myth #3: Multiple Monitors Increase/Decrease Productivity
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Myth #4: The Internet/Information Overload Is Making Us Stupid, So Disconnect to Get Things Done
Myth #5: It’s Impossible to Get Real Work Done at Home/a Coffee Shop/Library/Away from the Office
Myth #6: Sorting and Organizing Is the Solution to Email Overload
Myth #7: [Insert Productivity Technique] Will Fix Everything and Make You a Happy, Productive Person with More Free Time
