Email Bankruptcy

Email Bankruptcy

Our Focus Today: •The “Why” of email

•Principles that precede practices

•Root cause of symptoms in email

•Pursue a better future!

Average Emails/Workday 100

Average Minutes/Email 3

# of Workdays/Year 240

Total Minutes Spent/Year on Email 72000

Hours Spent/Year on Email 1200

Days Spent/Year on Email (based on 8 hours) 150

Percentage of work days spent on email 63%

The truth about email

Email. Advantage?

Email. Advantage?

Advantages •Efficient •Fast •Connectivity •Productivity •Written record •Easy to share •Other…

Disadvantages •Distraction •Interruption •Volume increasing •Reduce quality of our work

•Harm to relationships & self

•Other…

Does your overall use of email produce a net benefit or a net loss?

“The ultimate barrier to success is a shortage of mental “bandwidth,” or the ability to focus on a task

in the moment.” ~Sendhil Mullainathan

How’s your bandwidth?

Galatians 5:22-23

Mark 12:28-34

Visitors? Calls?

Principles Transfer?

Email. Strategy!

Developing the “Why” for email๏Purpose precedes planning

๏Define success for the proper and appropriate use of email

๏Consider a “Clean Slate” perspective

๏Consider declaring “Email Bankruptcy.” (Chapter 11)

๏If you were to start over with email, how would you design it?

WHY

HOW

Top Button Strategy.

๏Notifications off

๏Periodically checked

๏Email NOT on mobile phone

๏Respond in 24 hours or less

๏Unsubscribe periodically

๏Inbox to ZERO, once per day

My Progress…

Principles to Consider…๏Don’t let obligation drive your behavior

๏Avoid “victim mentality”

๏Apply parallel principles to email

๏Treat root causes, rather than symptoms

๏Design strategy from a “Clean Slate” perspective

๏Build expectations among those you email

๏Be willing to be different to pursue your Preferred Future.

๏Pursue the abundant life God has for you.

Email. Action.

Thank you.