Work Smarter, Not Harder
It’s easy to get caught up in administrative tasks - reading email, handling paper mail, filing information, managing accounts - that pull you away from writing and making money.
One principle to help reduce administrative tasks is to handle each correspondence and piece of paper as few times as possible. How do you do that?
- Sort your snail mail right over the shredder or recycle bin. Throw away junk mail or any unneeded enclosures or envelopes at that time.
- Limit yourself to checking email only six times a day. Then respond to emails as you read them.
- When you read an an email or letter, be prepared to file it in the appropriate place as soon as you have finished reading it.
- Designate a particular time and place for handling receipts, mileage logs, invoices, and bills. Allow the supporting documentation to accumulate at that place until the time you have designated to work on it for that week.
Work smarter, not harder.
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