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Coping With Email Overload

By Peter Bregman on April 26, 2012 in How We Work

I’ve come to the conclusion that I use email to distract myself. Whenever I feel the least bit uneasy, I check my email. Stuck while writing an article? Bored on a phone call? Standing in an elevator, frustrated in a meeting, anxious about an interaction? Might as well check email. It’s an ever-present, easy-access way to avoid my feelings of discomfort. Read More

Great thoughts, Peter!

Submitted by Todd Lohenry on April 27, 2012 - 4:50am.

I'm going to include some of your thoughts in a post I'll do later on using Gmail and Google Reader to handle information overload...

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Here it is!

Submitted by Todd Lohenry on May 2, 2012 - 8:11am.

Todd Lohenry wrote:

I'm going to include some of your thoughts in a post I'll do later on using Gmail and Google Reader to handle information overload...

http://e1evation.com/2012/05/02/coping-with-email-overload/

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Here's what I did with your article...

Submitted by Todd Lohenry on May 2, 2012 - 8:10am.

I used it as a jumping off point for my thoughts on 'personal news aggregation' here; http://e1evation.com/2012/05/02/coping-with-email-overload/

Thanks for your insight!

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Peter Bregman is the author of 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done and Point B: A Short Guide to Leading a Big Change.

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