{"id":4202,"date":"2024-09-24T09:54:13","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T09:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/evagruber.org\/?p=4202"},"modified":"2024-09-24T09:54:13","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T09:54:13","slug":"mastering-incoming-emails-a-new-approach-for-better-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evagruber.org\/de\/mastering-incoming-emails-a-new-approach-for-better-focus\/","title":{"rendered":"Mastering incoming emails: A new approach for better focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Emails, emails, emails!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A client once ran \u201ca zero-email-inbox\u201d competition with a peer. That\u2019s honorable towards others \u2014 but harmful to yourself.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Incoming messages are not only a big distraction for teenagers! They got us too.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Out of curiosity, I regularly ask my teenage nieces: \u201cHow many times per day do you activate your smartphone?\u201d 356, 236, 178, \u2026 times is the shocking truth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But our management of incoming work messages (as emails) isn\u2019t any better!\u00a0A recent study of the MyKinsey Global Institute announced:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The average professional spends 30% of their workday reading and responding to emails. This leads to 11 hours of email management every week.\u00a0Another study stated that participants checked their email inbox about 77 times on average per day.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The harm of constant email checking is clear:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We waste time and especially fragment our focus. How? As we switch between emails and tasks that often, our brain capacity slows down as we have to refocus again and again. We get less efficient, feel mentally overloaded. We feel busy all day, but get little tasks done.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">In my professional experience, at the core of these hindering behaviors are harmful beliefs such as:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cI have to respond right away.\u201c #Perform<br \/>\n\u201cI have to be available at all times.\u201c #PeoplePlease<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">This negative thinking, these harmful mindsets lead us to \u201cthe bad habit\u201c of checking our inbox at all times!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">As an expert in Mindset &#038; Behavior Change, I recommend you to take these steps getting out of the slump:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Step 1 \u2014 What\u2019s the harmful beliefs you grew and hold on to wrongly? Detect them.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Step 2 \u2014 Some time soon I\u2018ll share about email-batching \u2014 and a research-based trick on how to do it right.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">What do you take away from this post? Share with me,<strong> <a href=\"mailto:hi@evagruber.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hi@evagruber.org<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emails, emails, emails! A client once ran \u201ca zero-email-inbox\u201d competition with a peer. That\u2019s honorable towards others \u2014 but harmful to yourself. Incoming messages are not only a big distraction&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4203,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[225,49,23,513,512,118,15,314,254,252,360,504],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evagruber.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4202"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evagruber.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evagruber.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evagruber.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evagruber.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4202"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/evagruber.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4212,"href":"https:\/\/evagruber.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4202\/revisions\/4212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evagruber.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evagruber.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evagruber.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evagruber.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}