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Want to hear something really scary? For the rest of your life, as long as someone is sending you information, you will need to go through some sort of an Inbox… and hopefully that will be for a very long … Continued
When you bring your mail in, where do you put it? The dining room table? The hutch in the kitchen? Any open surfaces you can find which are disappearing faster than the ozone layer? Instead, drop the mail into an … Continued
Where do you put items that need to go upstairs when you are downstairs? From now on, place a basket at the top and the bottom of your stairs. When you have something you need to take upstairs, instead of … Continued
How many e-mails do you have left in your Inbox when you are done going through it? If the answer is anything other than zero, the next question is “How come?” Many people work from and out of their e-mail … Continued
When you open your e-mails, do you just kind of look at them and wonder where they should go? Or do you just leave them in your Inbox and not even consider moving them? Information from your e-mail Inbox flows … Continued
Is your Inbox on top of your Outbox? If it is, tell it to get off. The reason many people have an Inbox and Outbox on top of one another is to save desk space. However you won’t need to … Continued
How long does it take you to empty your desk Inbox that is if you do at all? You can empty your Inbox in fewer than five minutes when you stand and use a system versus spending an average of … Continued
Do you ever pick up a piece of paper in your Inbox and wonder where the silly thing should go? Or do you just kind of leave it alone and never bother it? During the day, everything always goes into … Continued
What do you do with the following? Someone hands you a piece of paper. You write down a phone number. You have papers from a sales appointment you were just on. You have a handout from yet another, boring meeting … Continued
If you don’t have an Outbox, where do you put a piece of paper that you need to give to someone? (Please don’t say on your desk or your credenza.) If you use paper, you need both an Inbox and … Continued