The first tip about email that I want to discuss with you is to stop your email from continually interrupting you. So let's say you're working on a major budget proposal or something very difficult for a client that needs deep, deep focus. So you're deep in this and all of a sudden ding you've got email or your perhaps your email tab shows you got an email and human nature is such that we have to go look to see what's there. We it's just calling us we keep thinking it could be important. It could be major, it could be something from a client, it could be something major for my boss, I have to go check now. So you break your focus and your focus is totally gone.

And then usually go and look at it and what is it it's usually a newsletter spam, or something that's not as high priority, so especially during your heart highest priority work, I want you to turn your email notifications off. My email never notifies me when I have a new email, and I checked my email only twice per day. So rather than my email going out and fetching every five minutes every one minute, I only check it twice a day. And I have set times that actually work on my email for me, it's twice a day, once in the morning, and once after lunch, I tell all my clients all my contacts, they will get a reply within one business day to all the email they send me so they're still getting helped in a timely fashion. But the email doesn't run me when I'm not working on specifically on email, such as if I'm writing a course, writing, doing any copywriting doing a research or anything else.

I actually closed my email program, or the tab the emails in if you're using a web based one such as Gmail I close that tab at all times. It's very hard to actually turn email notifications totally off in Outlook. So make sure you dig deeper into that Microsoft Outlook, if you close will actually send you more notifications through the icon bar. It's really annoying, so I had to work hard to find that. So very important. Turn your email notifications off.

Don't have it continually checking have set times where you work in your email in batches. It's more efficient to work in batches that way and other net keep your email program closed. It should only be open when you're actually actively working on email. Let's go on to the next lesson.