This short video explains how to save you time and energy with your inbox.

The principles to apply are:

1. Treat your inbox like your mailbox. Clean it out as you collect your mail instead of leaving emails sitting waiting for action.
2. Ask yourself, what needs to happen next? How much time will it take? If it is more than 15 mins, put it in your diary/calender. Budget the time for it.
3. If the next step is time sensitive, put it in your diary.
4. If the next step can be taken at any time and is not time sensitive or it will take less than 15 minutes, put it on your task list.
5. If it can be done in 2 minutes. Do it now.
6. Put the email in a home if you wish to keep it, for example a folder suitably named or delete it. Just don’t leave it sitting in your inbox.

Applying these principles will support you to be maximise your time and reduce overwhelm.

Here’s to having more time in your week!