For the past few months my inbox has contained less than 10 emails at any given time. For the past week it has contained less than three, if any at all. At the end of the day the inbox contains, at most, zero emails — and it’s insanely liberating.
They have either been answered, filed into appropriate project folders, filed for reference, or simply deleted. I leave the office everyday stressed free and with some sense of accomplishment.
I credit these high performance habits to David Allen’s Getting Things Done. When I rooted his methodology into my daily life I was transformed. Gone are the days of which the inbox is a daunting mess of disparity. Instead, I dare any email to show up in my inbox. I guarantee it won’t be in there long.
