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Get your priorities straight with Oliver Burkeman

How I Work

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How to Stop Running Your Life Out of Your Inbox

On my best days, I have a approximate plan for the day, sort of time boxed. And I'll be aiming to get stuff out of the inbox either just by replying if that's all it needs If it needs to go into a tough management system I'll try to take it out of there. In other words, I'm not like running my life out of my inbox where everything from misses from friends, urgent things from editors are all mixed and competing for my attention. The hard part is training yourself to sort of once you're on a roll and you're like oh if I just carried out a bit more I might like get to the end we get inbox zero.

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