Processing Your Work is Part of Your Work

Very well said by David Allen in his latest newsletter:

Processing your inbox is your work. It’s not something extra you have to do, or some distraction that doesn’t belong in your life…unless of course you feel the same way about your physical mailbox. Like it or not, dealing with all your email is as much a part of your work (and required to do your job as well as you can) as keeping lists, clearing your head, or doing regular reviews. Yet consistently, we come across a resistance people have to driving their inboxes down to zero on a regular basis—as if that’s a luxury reserved for those who don’t get much input or don’t have anything better to do. It’s a critical component for keeping you in a clear, current and creative space to work and play at your best.

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June 2, 2011 | Filed Under Productivity | 1 Comment 

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  1. Gordon Cheng on June 2nd, 2011 7:08 pm

    I’m quite mystified by this getting your inbox to zero thing.

    I harvest the ‘to do’ items from e-mails and put them into the diary.

    Electronic receipts go into the $ file.

    Subscription info goes into the subscriptions/disguised passwords file.

    Everything else stays put and can easily be searched via the search engine in the e-mail browser. I can easily find old information that way.

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