3 Reading Tips For You

Written by John W. Furst, has got 3 Replies.

Reading Tips

I start the new week with giving you excellent reading tips. Yes, I feel a bit lazy today, and I do admit it. However, the content I give you links for is worth your clicks.

In my Get More Done posts I have written about the importance of handling email the right way rather than getting overwhelmed by email. Tim Ferris (↑), author of the 4-hour-workweek goes one step further. He even outsources the handling of all of his email (about 1,000 emails per day) and only spend 10 minutes with it a day. Sounds cool? He even shows you his procedure that works for him and he actually wants you to steal it, modify it, use it for yourself. If you have trouble with handling the size of your inbox, you should learn from Tim.

Even, if you are not ready — but being not ready is one of the oldest excuses for procrastination by the way — you can apply some of the rules to automatic filters, autoresponders, etc.

Here is Tim's post:

The Holy Grail: How to Outsource the Inbox and Never Check Email Again (↑) by Tim Ferris

The second post I want to bring to your attention today:

Top 30 Tips for Staying Productive and Sane While Working From Home (↑) by Leo Babauta

This post has already become very popular with 765 Diggs (as I write this) within 3 days. No wonder, because the Zenhabits.net Blog has about 34,300 readers.

Leo Babauta has started his second Blog recently. You might want to check it out, too.

Write To Done ‘dot com’ (↑)

Hi, my name is Leo Babauta, better known of the Zen Habits blog. I’ve created Write To Done as a way to share some of what I’ve learned as a writer, with new (and experienced) writers looking to improve their craft and their art.

That’s what Write To Done is about, at its core: the craft and the art of writing.

But from that core we’ll be covering many topics: journalism, blog writing, freelance writing, fiction, non-fiction, getting a book deal, the business of writing, the habit of writing. And so on.

What’s my background as a writer? This is the one area I feel confident writing about, as writing has been the core of my being since middle school — for the last 23 years or so. Continue reading … (↑)

Okay, that should be enough reading for you for the day.

Yours
John W. Furst

P.S.: Thanks to Aaron Potts (↑) for bringing WriteToDone to my attention.

Defined tags for this entry: email, personal development, time management, writing

Posted by John W. Furst in Coaching, Miscellaneous on Monday, January 28, 2008 | Trackbacks (0) | Comments (3)

Hey, please, RETWEET this post!

top↑

< Tit For Tat Blog Carnival January 2008 | Performance Boost Under Pressure >

Trackbacks

Trackback specific URI for this entry

No Trackbacks

Comments

Hello John,

I'm going to have to check out the 4-hour-workweek. In the meantime tho- another book I like "Getting things done" by David Allen stated about email that you should only "touch" it once - print it, file it, answer it, delete it - whatever it takes -but don't keep going back to it!
Seems like such a simple little thing - but it made my life so much easier!
Sabine

#1 Sabine Pyrchalla from www.ColoradoHighlandsGroup.com on 2008-01-30 05:41 (Reply)

DON'T print email! It's waste of resources. Most of it will never be used again. Learn to live the digital life-style. Make sure that you have a working backup strategy, though. Unless you are an acountant, you don't need to keep much stuff anyway.

Ultimately your business system will use online forms and databases with no need to keep emails.

By the way: Your "Daily Quotes" on your Blog are really a great thing to have. The one from Les Brown is really a great one. Bye.

#1.1 Jennifer M. [fcon21.biz] on 2008-01-30 17:51 (Reply)

Jennifer,
I agree with not printing emails - it was just one of his suggestions - in case it's something you truly need.

Thank you so much regarding the Quotes. Glad you like them!

Sabine

#1.1.1 Sabine Pyrchalla from coloradohighlandsgroup.wordpress.com on 2008-02-05 22:54 (Reply)

Add Comment

	Rule: Let's be cool here. If you're rude, I'll delete your stuff. Please, don't put your URL in the comment text and, please, use your PERSONAL name or initials, not your business name and not keywords, as the latter comes off like spam. Thanks for adding to the conversation!
Your Personal Name or initials
Email (not displayed)
Homepage e.g. www.example.com (optional)
In reply to
Comment (HTML Tags are ignored) Comment Policy	Enclosing asterisks marks text as bold (word), underscore are made via _word_. Standard emoticons like :-) and ;-) are converted to images. E-Mail addresses will not be displayed and will only be used for E-Mail notifications Spam Bot Protection: Prove that you are human! The strings must match and your browser needs to supports cookies. Moderation may be required. We reserve the right to delete inappropriate comments. Enter the string from the spam-prevention image above: Gravatar/Favatar/MyBlogLog author images supported.
	Remember Information? Get new comments via Email Get new comments via RSS (↑)