It Cant Wait Or Can It!

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Age of emails and text messaging, REALLY!

I was recently doing a course on personal effectiveness and the issue of emails and text messages came up.

Do your emails and text messages dictate how you use your time or are you the boss?

Life is fast these days and everything is instant, including gratification. People expect responses immediately. Not to mention text messaging ‘addiction’. Most people check their messages as soon as they hear the alert, irrespective of what they are doing. DISTRACTION!

What I learned from this course is that emails and text messages are other people’s agenda. Why then do we drop our own agenda in order to respond to other people’s instantly?

Of course some emails and messages are work related and important, however, if you allow yourself to check emails and texts frequently and at random, they are bound to distract your productivity and effectiveness.

If you set out specific times to check these things, you are in control.

Let our success be on our own terms, the email and texts can wait. Have a great week friends :))

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Thanks for the great advice.

Cheers Anthony and I appreciate you reading my post.

On our own terms is definately the Best, Chuka!
Thank you for a great post.....

Thank you very much Therese. I appreciate your contribution :)

Hi Chuka, good advice. Irv.

Thank you Irv, I always appreciate you support.

Agree with you here

Many thank Roopesh and I appreciate you reading my post.

Great advice, Chuka! :)

Much appreciated Mike.

Great post, everybody should find a solution for emails, but take care of business first.

Cheers Mike!

Great post, everybody should find a solution for emails, but take care of business first.

We are in complete agreement, thank you Mike :)

I really liked this post. I do set specific times to check emails for wealthy affiliate and delete all my spam. Even though I am developing a system I'm finding it hard to keep up. I feel like Im spending too much time but I also find it imortant to read and respond to the posts of others on here. How do you all keep up? Especially those with other jobs.

Frankly Jean, I switched off the email alerts from here or from anywhere. I check my emails and texts twice a day: in the morning before I get started and when I finish work. I sometimes look when I'm at lunch. Thanks for reading my post :)

Today my distraction is football. My team is playing right now and we are winning. We just scored a touchdown.

It's allowed Roger, it's Sunday LoL! We do have distractions but some can be avoided especially in the middle of work. Congratulations to your team for their win :)

They are winning so far. Buffalo is driving now.

So true Chuka - I always tell my kids, (when I don't respond immediately,) that I don't walk around with my phone welded to my hand! :)

Lol Jude, but you are absolutely right to respond on your terms. If only some parents would do the same and teach kids that everything can't be NOW!

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