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“Excessive time is spent reading and writing e-mails, with approximately 65% (of workers) spending from 1 to 3 hours per day on it” via Information Mapping Survey

A few days ago I went through the first stage in defeating email overload. This article is part 2 of my personal methodology to achieving email Zen in Outlook.

Stage 1: Get to Zero Email In Your Inbox

Stage 2: Working from your Followup Folder

After going through Stage 1, only the email in your followup folder needs to be dealt with. Everything else should have been answered on the spot or deleted. Here’s what you do next…

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So, you’re tired of getting bogged down by a flood of emails, and want more time to focus on your work?

While email has completely revolutionized the way we work, it also comes with nasty side effects.

Consider this :

“The average American employee spends about a quarter of their working day (around one and three quarter hours) dealing with email. Three out of ten spend more than two hours and almost one in ten (8 per cent) spend an astonishing four hours or more a day pouring over their inboxes.” via Management-Issues.com

We are copied on too many emails we don’t need to read. Our work is disrupted by emails that we feel we must attend to on the spot. We spend the whole day clearing emails when we return from a holiday, at times not knowing even where to begin.

Here’s my personal method of dealing with email overload in Outlook. The first lesson on email Zen is that “a clear inbox equals a clear mind “.

Get to ZERO Emails in Your Inbox in 6 Easy Steps

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An inspiration to those hoping to make a living out of their blog, Liew Cheon Fong of LiewCF.com is Malaysia’s first and possibly only full-time professional blogger. He was also kind enough to take time off his busy schedule to do a quick email interview with me.

You are seen as an icon to anyone in Malaysia who hopes to make a living off blogging. While success is definitely possible, the failure rate is extremely high. Is full time blogging something you would encourage others to do? and why?

Everyone has his/her own talent. Not everyone is suitable to become a full-time blogger. I strongly encourage everyone have some real working experience first. Before you jump into full-time blogging, I would suggest you to do part-time blogging first. Make sure you are able to make money from your part-time blogging. When the income of part-time blogging has become double of your full-time job salary, then you can start consider to become a full-time blogger. You should have a backup plan or enough saving before you decide to be a full-time blogger.

You are now enjoying a good measure of success. Can you elaborate on any difficulties you faced early on?

For a blogger, site traffic is very important. It is not easy to attract new visitors and keeps them returning to your blog. It takes effort to learn what your visitors want and satisfy them. English is not my mother tongue. Therefore, I spend more time than others to publish an entry but it is still full of mistakes. I am still learning in these areas :)

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