Perfect!This is taken from a corporate training bulletin on handling Emails effectively, its not meant to be funny but.....
To conquer the time suck, surge your productivity and make more room in your day.
Remember an Email from someone who has already spoken or written to you is almost always more important than from someone we don't know.
Email is the equivalent to an interminable game of Tetris — one that you can never truly win. Accept this, you’ll be better equipped to handle your inbox. You’ll never win, because as soon as you clear your inbox and get to sleep, you’ll wake up in the morning with a hundred more, You shouldn’t worry if you have thousands of emails, you’re not alone.
Email shall not be your first priority, ok, one of your priorities, but not your number one priority. An email is actually just another person’s to-do list that has been assigned to you. So, it should be an item on your list, but not at the top. Scan your emails in the morning to see what’s important, then close your inbox entirely to remove the distraction. Then, dedicate blocks of time to sort, delete and respond. Try containing your email-related prioties within those designated times: Multi-tasking will do you much more harm than good.
Not all emails are created equal.
While the note from your boss holds more weight than that newsletter, your brain will consider the two to be equally important. That can be taxing on your productivity and really stressful. To remedy, delete in bulk and bucket and label email based on its sender and subject. Schedule some time on your calendar to sort through all the nonsense — group them all together and click “delete.
And a little advice for those who happen to be the inbox-cluttering-culprit themselves: Know that it takes longer to process an email than it does to write one. Consider bolding key sentences and takeaways, which help clarify the task of the recipient. And when possible, keep it short, if you can fit an email message into a subject line, that is very helpful.