Comments on: Cutting the Email Leash

By: Wrhel Consulting and Design

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By: Sterling

Sterling — Mon, 21 May 2007 19:18:01 +0000

@Pat

Good luck with your new business. One of the real keys is to actually get started ASAP. Don’t put it off. Doesn’t matter if it is perfect or you don’t know exactly what your doing, fail forward!

@All

I’m doing the 2 times a day email thingy, with the first after lunch right now. Once I get myself to consistantly do it I’m going to….wait for it….ONCE a day!! I know it sounds impossible, but I am now about setting unrealistic goals!

Sterling

By: Sterling

Sterling — Mon, 21 May 2007 18:52:52 +0000

I am currently on the info diet as well as the email twice a day thingermabob, it’s actually HARD! Must….not..read…blogs…Must … not… check…email.

Luckily I haven’t read a newspaper in years, nor have I watched the news in forever! I get my news where all responsible, intelligent patriots get their news: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart!!

Must…not…check…email….

I’m also going through the 4 hour work week again, chapter by chapter, and I am currently on the designing your lifestyle part specifically, I’m also finding that kinda hard too. I’m used to realistic goals…

Must… not… check…email!

Sterling…

By: Jay (Jason Van Orden)

Jay (Jason Van Orden) — Wed, 16 May 2007 22:45:05 +0000

@Jason,

Tim’s blog was actually one big motivator in my goal to cut the leash. I’m reading The Four-Hour Work Week now. We talk about the book a lot on IBM #27 which we just finished recording. Incidentally, we mention you to ;).

By: Mindful Entrepreneur

Mindful Entrepreneur — Wed, 16 May 2007 21:30:56 +0000

Looks like a solid system, Jay!

In The Four Hour Work Week, Tim Ferriss talks a lot about the importance of losing the “email addiction” and even going on a comprehensive *information diet.*

It’s remarkable how easy it is to create work for ourselves in simple tasks such as checking email or voicemail. Overcoming this compulsion to focus on the least productive tasks is an essential growth step for all entrepreneurs.

Keep me posted on your progress!

Best,

Jason Clegg
“Mindful Entrepreneur”

By: Pat

Pat — Tue, 15 May 2007 19:45:58 +0000

I am intrigued by the idea of chcking email less often. I can’t do that at my 9 to 5, but I can at my home biz.
Oh, and I have been listening to episodes 14, 15, and 20-26 over and over on my commute, because there’s nothing new to listen to. Can’t wait for IBM 27!
I finished the first binder of “Insider Secrets.” I hope to have an LLC started and something on the web in the next two weeks.

By: Jay (Jason Van Orden)

Jay (Jason Van Orden) — Mon, 14 May 2007 09:38:37 +0000

@terra,

Thanks for those very kind words.

By: terra

terra — Mon, 14 May 2007 01:29:47 +0000

This is definitely something I need to work on too. It’s amazing how us internet entrepreneurs are seriously dependent (or we think so) on our email and having email access at all times. Can’t wait to hear the next podcast…. I still believe you both host the best podcast on the net…hands down!

By: Jay (Jason Van Orden)

Jay (Jason Van Orden) — Thu, 10 May 2007 21:57:49 +0000

That’s a great point. I think I’ll add that to my list of email controls: no checking email before lunch.

By: How to Cut Kids Hair

How to Cut Kids Hair — Thu, 10 May 2007 20:57:17 +0000

I’d say that the most important factor is WHEN you start to check your email. I saw a C-span show on a famous author and he doesn’t do anything but his work until after lunch. Then he checks his email and phone. If you check it twice a day that could still suck you entire day if you were to start checking at 9 vs the guy that waits till 1. Plus what could be so pressing that it has to be addressed before 1 anyway.

By: Michael Copeland

Michael Copeland — Thu, 10 May 2007 15:44:55 +0000

Jason,
I heard about cutting down email checking a couple weeks ago. I do have to say, I’ve noticed productivity go up greatly! It’s like freedom!
I don’t get as many emails as you do but taking the time to read and respond to an email as it comes in really broke the thought process and it took twice as long to get back on track. Then BAM, another email. So all day, I was TRYING to get back into what I was doing but the emails were the interruption. Now, scheduling that interuption, has allowed me to complete a thought and then check emails, then get back to it again.
It is a hard habit to break though.. I’ve found myself checking emails more frequently this week, but now that I’ve read what you had to say, I’m getting back on track!
Thanks!

By: Shelton Johnson

Shelton Johnson — Thu, 10 May 2007 01:38:59 +0000

I would like to join you, but until I switch my business model this “Crack Berry is my master. My clients have come accustomed to me replying instantly to emails. I am just digging a hole for myself. I am in ¾’s of the way in “The E-myth” so I NOW understand what needs to be done. ;-)

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