Voila: you now no longer have to open your inbox more than absolutely necessary. When you need to write an email just right click this link to open it in a new tab and write your email. Drag this link to your toolbar so it’s bookmarked.Make sure you’re logged into the primary Gmail account.Instead of wading into you inbox when you need to write a quick email (and opening yourself up to all kinds of distraction), you can just click Compose, send the email, and shut the browser tab to go back to whatever you’re doing. This is an awesome Gmail trick I learned recently: you can bookmark the compose feature from Gmail and pin it to your browser toolbar. #2 Compose emails without wading into the morass of your inbox. ![]() More: Read the 4-Hour Workweek or this free whitepaper (also by Tim Ferris): The Low-Information Diet: How to Eliminate Email Overload and Triple Productivity in 24 Hours. Generally, I don’t check my email more than twice a day, and less if I can get away with it. I’ve been my own boss for a while, and one thing I do is scale my availability up or down depending on what kind of email I’m expecting (eg, a response to a major business possibility). If something is really that important you should get a phone call or a visit to your desk.īe careful with this if you’re still an employee – it can get you in trouble with old-school bosses or people who just don’t get efficiency. The best way to solve email addiction is to strictly limit yourself to x2 checking, max. This sort of reaction time blows me away because it means that whoever responded prioritized my email above all other work they have in front of them. I know that some people have a different idea, and I’m always bracing for a slough of inefficient communication whenever I get a response to an email in under 5 minutes. Guess what: if I’m available for non-critical communication 24×7 then I’m not getting my job done. It’s also a lot of fun because it will drive time-wasting email addicts nuts. This was a prominent tip in the 4-Hour Workweek and it’s one of my favorite productivity hacks. #1 Don’t check your email more than twice a day. Here are a few game-changing productivity hacks, some I’ve been doing for years and a couple game-changers I’ve implemented just recently: Like any tool, there are efficient and not so efficient ways to use email. It can also wreak havoc on brain-intensive tasks ( 28% of your time could be wasted by interruption). It’s not a chatroom, it’s not a project management tool, and it won’t substitute for talking to someone on the phone or in person. ![]() Unless your primary responsibility is “respond to any and all email,” or there’s a mission critical contract out that needs to get signed, or your project management solution has completely failed and there is absolutely no other way to get a hold of you, I would suggest another approach.Įmail is, after all, asynchronous communication. If you check your email every 5 minutes, I’ve got news for you: this not the best way to get things done, and it may be adding a lot of needless working hours to your day. This, combined with the curious fact that the Australian Aborigines are amongst the few cultures in the world never to have developed the bow and arrow may have ensured its preservation as a living tradition.Update: Revised on 2/7/15 from 3 hacks to 4 hacks! ![]() It has been suggested that this may be due to the unique suitability of the hunting stick as weapon against upright standing prey (kangaroos and emus) in relatively open country. At some point, someone must have noticed the recreational possibilities of a stick that comes back when you throw it away and the rest is (pre) history.įor some reason the boomerang (both hunting and returning) was preserved in it’s highest state of development by the Australian Aborigines – so much so that most people associate boomerangs only with Australia. Probably, the curving flight characteristic of returning boomerangs was first noticed by stone age hunters trying to “tune” their hunting sticks to fly straight. A hunting boomerang is delicately balanced and much harder to make than a returning one. No one knows for sure how the returning boomerang was first invented, but some modern boomerang makers speculate that it developed from the flattened throwing stick, still used by the Australian Aborigines and some other tribal people around the world (eg the Navajo Indians in America). King Tutankhamun, the famous Pharaoh of ancient Egypt, who died 2,000 years ago, owned a collection of boomerangs of both the straight flying (hunting) and returning variety. The oldest Australian Aboriginal boomerangs are ten thousand years old but older hunting sticks have been discovered in Europe, where they seem to have formed part of the stoneage arsenal of weapons. ![]() Boomerangs are probably the first heavier-than-air flying machine ever invented by human beings.
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