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The problem with scheduling your email replies, (Jordan and I are trying to schedule email replies to be typed on a Monday and a Thursday) is that there is always at least one hundred emails in my inbox.

The alternative to this is to answer emails as you go along, trying to keep on top of the tsunami of information that comes your way.

Neither of these solutions are ideal, as it means that you can’t write time twice a week to dictate the response to the emails.

By the time you dictate them, you’ve had a telephone conversation which makes it obsolete and sometimes by the time you get to the email it’s already been actioned by someone else (that’s usually a good thing) but otherwise I spend my day on high alert with a phone in my hand and a laptop on my lap, trying to answer emails, it’s like using a bucket to keep the water out of a sinking boat.

In the year since I gave up social media, I don’t get any interruptions from Facebook messages. I don’t have an Instagram account or a Snapchat account and I don’t have notifications on my phone for anything other than texts and calls.

Despite that I still find it difficult to keep up with a tonne of emails, so I have no idea, how anybody else manages to keep up with those other things and still manage to get any of the really important work done, which almost never, ever comes from emails or social media.

Hard as it is to believe, my embargo on social media, created way more opportunities through talking to people face to face than it stopped through the social media on slot.

There are always a hundred and there will always be a hundred.

The secret is not to try not to work harder (the numbers will increase, not decrease)

The secret is to work smarter.

Blog Post Number - 2009