Not checking email first thing is really hard to do! I manage to do it (just) but it requires an immense amount of discipline and easy to slip back into bad habits.
What Successful People Do With The First Hour Of Their Work Day
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#12Not checking email first thing is really hard to do! I manage to do it (just) but it requires an immense amount of discipline and easy to slip back into bad habits.
Its not a bad habit. A whole army of blog posts have spawned around this fallacy which annoys the hell out of me.
It works for some but a lot of people rely on email as a primary communication medium. You just look like an asshole to your customers and colleagues.
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#13> Robbins suggests setting up an “Hour of Power,” “30 Minutes to Thrive,” or at least “Fifteen Minutes to Fulfillment.”
If I don't have time for that, can I try "5 minutes of self help drivel"?
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#14> “If something urgently needs my attention, someone will call or text me.”
this probably works when you're the CEO/founder. when you're not, you probably don't want a reputation as "the guy who never checks his email" ...
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#15I can't help but wonder what happened to "Shit, Shower, and Shave".
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#16I can't help but wonder what happened to "Shit, Shower, and Shave".
There's an app for that.
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#17Interestingly there seems to be a recent trend of not being a slave to your email, twitter, FB, etc. I suppose people are starting to realize that urgent things don't necessarily come from these mediums and as much as we have come to rely on them, they provide us with more noise than useful data. I've been trying to check email twice daily at scheduled times and respond to emails in "batch" instead of as they come in…
when everyone starts doing it things stop working very very quickly.
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#19What SOME successful people happen to do with the first hour of their day. Correlation != Causation.
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#20> “If something urgently needs my attention, someone will call or text me.” this probably works when you're the CEO/founder. when you're not, you probably don't want a reputation as "the guy who never checks his email" ...
I really think it would be hard for anyone to notice you and glorify you with a reputation as the "guy who never checks email before 9am". That old quote .. 'no one thinks about you as much as you do' comes to mind. He just said give it an hour, not forever.