Time Management : Set Priorities to Get the Right Things Done

USING YOUR TIME EFFICIENTLY

require immediate action accumulate. After
you’ve responded to an e-mail, delete it or fi le
it in an e-mail folder. Don’t let the e-mails that
you’ve already taken care of clutter your in-box
and potentially hide other e-mails that still
require your attention.
Similarly, once you’ve opened a piece of
mail or received a document that you’ve

THE THREE “R”S

When e-mail and paper documents

don’t get handled efficiently, they

pile up, disorganize your work area,

and waste invaluable time. To keep

e-mails from clogging your in-box and

document stacks from growing, time-

management author K. J. McCorry

suggests adopting the three “R”s:

• Read it


• Respond to it


• Remove it
  If you can’t do one of these things
  with the e-mails and papers in your
  life, you don’t have an organization
  problem, you have a decision-making
  problem.
  SOURCE:Organize Your Work Day in No Time by
  K. J. McCorry (Que, 2005).

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