A cure for time sickness - email

Sift through your emails. Divide into 3 categories:

- Priority items which require your personal attention and represent matters of indisputable importance.

- Items that can be handled by you

- Items you think would be good to look at, but never quite get around to

Priority items

- Don’t put more than 5 items in this category.

Items that can be handled by you

- These can wait, think about whether you are really the only one who can deal with an item, the control of time is nothing if not an exercise in selfishness. Load them up with everything that fails the 70% test.

“Is it possible someone could do this task at least 70% as well as I could?” If the answer is yes, let them.

Items you think would be good to look at, but never quite get around to

- Reduce the amount to 2 per week