Snail E-mail - it can exist
Tom O’Leary wrote an article on how to “Treat Your Email Like Snail Mail and Walk Away with Change” that has some valid points. Ones that stood out for me were…
- You have more control over the speed of the email in and out of your life than you know.
- The speed that you reply to an email directly determines your correspondent’s perception of what is normal.
He says that you need to “Decide what time (or times) you will deal with email each day. At that time (assuming you deal with it once a day) you will have the last 24 hours worth of emails waiting for you. Set up an efficient system to deal with all of your emails in one sitting. Sort, process, act and delete, until there is nothing left. Then turn off your email. Now that you have done your emailing, get to work on whatever else is important to you. Achieve something valuable and don’t refer back to email until your next scheduled time. Repeat the process. Quite quickly, your contacts will come to understand how soon they can expect a response from you. If email isn’t fast enough, they’ll soon be on the phone, but for most things, people just wait.”
