THE PLAY OF THE WEEK
Stop Checking Your Email All Day Long
When you work in a distracted state, you’re nowhere near peak performance.
When you focus on ONE thing, you perform at 100%.
Add a second thing—like checking email while working on a project—your performance drops by 60%.
Sixty. Percent.
Do you want to play at 100% or 40%?
Peak performers don’t check email all day long. They block specific times to check it, then they close it and get back to focused work.
GET ON THE ICE
Step 1: Turn off email notifications. All of them.
Step 2: Pick three times a day to check email:
- Morning (8:00 AM)
- Midday (12:30 PM)
- End of day (4:00 PM)
Step 3: Close your email between those times. Actually close it.
Step 4: Use the time between email checks for deep, focused work on your most important projects.
Your clients will never go more than 3-4 hours without a response. That’s still excellent service. But now you have hours of uninterrupted focus time.
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
“The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.”
― Stephen Covey