How To Get More Done In Less Time.

I’m obsessed with learning how skilled people do their work, How a sculptor can take a lump of rock and turn it into a beautiful masterpiece, and how an author can take an idea for a story and turn it into a novel that entertains millions of people.

The more I learn from these incredible people, the more I see that the ‘secret’ to producing great work is not a secret. It’s simply having a process that gets the job done.

This is nothing new. It’s something that technology can influence but doesn’t change the principle, and that is, if you want to create something, you need to follow a roadmap or set of actions that get you from where you are today to where you wish to be in the future.

Keeping on top of your email is easy. It’s a simple process. First, clear your inbox and filter out the emails you need to act on, then later in the day, give yourself an hour to work on your actionable emails by starting with the oldest first.

If you follow that process daily, you will never have issues with backlogged emails. You will always remain on top of it. Yet if you ignore the process for a day or two, you will have a backlog that needs dealing with, which requires extra time — and most people do not have.

When we try to change a process or system that is currently working, things go wrong…