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I am declaring a vacation from my email. Since I can’t quite get to #noemail<\/a> yet, I think this is the next best thing. Let me explain.<\/p>\n

First, I need to say thanks to Tom Cochran. He used to run digital technology for Whitehouse.gov and I got to meet him at Drupalcon Denver last year. Tom shared a link<\/a> to an HBR article on Twitter and I luckily saw it go by on my stream. I read the post “Coping with Email Overload”<\/a> by Peter Bregman over the holidays and started thinking about how this method might work for me.<\/p>\n

“Instead of checking email continuously and from multiple devices, schedule specific email time during the day while you are at your computer. All other time is email vacation time.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As I pondered the concept of checking email at certain intervals during the day, I realized that I already do this for my home email. I used to check my home email all the time, twice in the morning before work, I’d have a tab open up in my browser at work, and then several times in the evening. Over the last few months, I started checking my home email, at most, twice a day. In fact, sometimes, I’ll only check it at night. Why didn’t I apply this method to my work email?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I agree with Bregman. “We are most efficient when we answer email in bulk at our computers.”<\/em> And I’ve been practicing this for the last few years without recognizing what Bregman outlines in his post. Any time after vacation, traveling, or a long weekend, I would block off a few hours the morning of my return to knock out email. Then I would return to my old habits of checking the constant flow of messages.<\/p>\n

Good-bye bombardment! 2013 is going to be different. Well, at least I’m going to try this experiment for the next two weeks. I’m going to try a hybrid version of what Bregman describes. I’ll check my inbox and go through my filtered email three to four times a day. In the morning, mid-morning, after lunch, and late afternoon. I do not want to do set times, yet\u2014but I may have to eventually consider that option.<\/p>\n

The major reason I am trying a hybrid version is that I can’t close my email client (Thunderbird) during the day. I think that would be more inefficient; waiting for it to open, typing in my password, waiting for messages to load. Why? I have too much information stored away in my email like snippets of information, attachments, or things I need to work on.<\/p>\n

Today was the first day that I tried taking email vacations. I was mostly successful. I was able to turn off the urge to check my inbox. I let the emails pile up in my inbox and waited for the next “scheduled” bulk time. Otherwise, I was able to draw a line in my inbox for things I was working on and tried to stay in other folders where I was working. New messages remained unread.<\/p>\n

So far so good. I felt more productive and efficient. Let’s see how this experiment goes and if this can become a good habit for 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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