Shut off inbox notifications.”
“Only check email once in the morning and once in the afternoon — no more, no less.”
“Set an ‘out of office’ response to let people know you’re focusing on work and not checking email.”
Email management advice like this is commonly espoused by work and career experts who warn that the inbox is the ultimateproductivity-killer. And it’s true: One of modern business’s most ubiquitous tools has become one of its greatest drawbacks. To focus, we need to limit our time in email jail each day.
What productivity experts don’t share is that the distracting power of email goes much deeper than merely interrupting our workflow. In fact, your digital habits connect to psychological factors happening outside your awareness.
[For more of this story, written by Melody Wilding, go to http://psychcentral.com/blog/a...s-approach-to-email/]
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