Why can't I receive email after I get up?

Why can't I receive email after I get up? Why can't I receive email after I get up?

Nanyi

Turn on the computer every morning, what do you do first?

My habit has always been to receive mail. When I read the following article, I was shocked to find that it was a very wrong thing to do, reflecting my ability to control behavior very poorly.

This is really a painful lesson, in order to lesson, I translated the full text, I hope other friends do not make the same mistake again.

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Why can't I receive email after I get up ?

Sid Savara

Translator: Ruan Yi Feng

Original URL: http://sidsavara.com/personal-development/do-not-check-email-in-the-morning

British writer Richard Whately said:

"Wasting an hour in the morning, you have to spend all day to make up." (Lose an hour in the morning, and you'll be a all day hunting for it.)

Every morning, you should not take mail as the first thing after waking up. I have seven reasons to prove it.

One, it will reduce efficiency

It is a blessing to have no interest in e-mail. If you have something important to do in hand, I only have four words for you: "Don't accept mail." "

As soon as you get up, use 30--45 minutes, focus on the most important things, and then collect e-mails. If you can stand it, you might as well wait a long time. I often open my mailbox after lunch.

Do you know? As long as you don't care about other things, you can concentrate all your energies on the work at hand.

Without e-mail, you won't know where another fire is happening, or a brand is selling it, or a friend recommends a fun video.

Any new information you get will distract you. By the way, this is why I often do not read any newspaper, TV, or listen to the radio in the morning. I don't want to be distracted. You can't control others, but at least you can control your concentration.

Second, it does not belong to your to-dos

If you know what the most important thing is, or know what to do every day, then get up and do it first.

If you go to collect e-mails at this time, chances are you will do what others ask you to do. Whenever you open an e-mail message, you should measure whether it is more important to your own affairs, or something more important to others. In reality, how many people can see the demands of others, but insist on doing their own things?

If you can't hold on, then eventually you're busy, it's someone else's task (even if it's just replying to an email, providing a little comment), not your own task.

To put it bluntly, open the mailbox, that a sealed email is someone else to arrange for you to do things.

Who does your time belong to? yourself, or someone who wrote to you?

Thirdly, it is an excuse for lack of goals

Let me ask you: Why do you receive e-mails first thing every morning?

The answer is often because you don't know what you should do.

There are times when everyone can avoid it. But if you check your mailbox frequently, you should be wary, it's a sign that you're a little off the track.

My opinion is that you have to do important tasks, should put in the first place, do not let you check the mail, clean the desk and other trivial points of your heart. If you habitually open your mailbox every morning, the real problem is not that you're wasting your time checking your mail, but that you don't know what your high-priority tasks are, so you're going to do low-priority tasks like looking at messages.

When you don't know what's the top priority, it's up to you to look at your email as your own priority, and not to do what's really critical.

Iv. Passive and active

When looking at a message, the best thing to do is to get a very important email, not too late, and then take action immediately. But is this a common situation? Very rare.

There are two more common cases. A "good" situation is that you don't receive any new mail, and there's nothing new to do. However, in any case, when you waste your time checking your email, you can reduce the frequency of your viewing.

But how common is this situation? What you encounter is often a worse situation: you find more things for yourself to do. Because you're "receiving mail," you start replying to them, wasting your time on something else. Instead of "proactively" setting a schedule for yourself, new emails are forcing you to act "passively", forcing you to ignore their true priorities.

I would rather take the initiative, rather than do what is important to me, regardless of what is urgent in the Inbox or in front of the mail.

Do not waste your every move, you need to do more productivity than high action.

V. Find excuses

As far as I am concerned, if I open my mailbox blindly (or Twitter, Facebook, and a similar network of wasted time), I'm often not looking for something important, I'm trying to find an excuse not to do what I have to do.

I am looking for reasons, I want to tell myself why those things can be dragged to do later. ("I must help Zhang San write his report," or "I must answer John Doe's question.") ）

Don't fall into this trap. Don't let e-mail become an excuse for you to indulge yourself.

If you're doing something at hand, don't check the email. Admit it, you have to do something, then do it.

Six, unable to set the time limit

Meeting is a waste of time, but in most cases, you know at least how long it will take to open a meeting.

If I ask you, how much time will you spend on the mail after you open the mailbox? You may not be able to answer, or underestimate the time spent.

It only takes a minute to see the message, and the problem is that you're going to be dragged along with it, and you don't know how long it takes to get it done. As a matter of fact, I used to open my mailbox after I woke up and got stuck in it until lunch cannot.

During the day, your most efficient time is limited. Don't let the mail hold you down, wasting your precious time.

Seven, it brings expectations

Many people say: "I have to accept mail!" Others expect to receive my reply as soon as possible! "

First of all, I do not believe this argument. There are some requests to respond as quickly as possible, but they may be far less urgent than you think. Second, even if the answer is the only option, you might ask yourself why.

Do you know why others expect you to respond as soon as possible?

The reason may be that you always reply to an email every day as soon as you wake up, and you create someone else's expectations.

The more frequently you check your email, the more people will believe you will respond quickly. You don't look at your emails early every day, and people don't expect you to get back as soon as possible.

Well, I know it's easier said than done. Don't worry, hold on for two weeks, no one will expect you.

If you "must" receive the e-mail ...

Some readers may protest: "How can I keep in touch with my team without receiving email?" "or" Before I make the next step, I have to get feedback. "I fully understand these ideas, and sometimes I'm looking forward to receiving some important feedback, and I'm going to pick up the mail quickly after I get up."

What I want to say is: If you have to do this, limit yourself to only a subset of the messages. I recommend using the following rules:

　　* Just see if there's anything you're looking for. The most important thing is not to look outside the plan. With a destination to see, there is no specific message sent to you by a particular person.

　　* Filter messages that are not important. a good way to do this is if the message comes from an unfamiliar address, save it for later.

　　* Set a time limit. specify that you can only use 5 minutes to receive the email, only find the information you want, before the action to make a good exit strategy. When the mailbox hasn't been opened, you'll know what to do: 1) that email has arrived; 2) it hasn't arrived yet; 3) The information you want is not complete enough. In any case, don't react passively, but take the initiative to think about different outcomes and what to do with them.

Now, you can stop reading this article and do what's important to you. No matter what you do, just accept the email not too often.

Why can't I receive email after I get up?