Solve the email problem, eliminate email overload, get to inbox zero, and live your life in digital serenity while achieving surgical responsiveness. Welcome to the Weightless Productivity podcast.
Defining Surgical Responsiveness, and its Role in Eliminating Email Overload
In every episode of the Weightless Productivity Podcast, we mention surgical responsiveness. So, what is it? In this episode we'll dive further into what it means to be surgically responsive. It's much different from being immediately responsive, and has a lot more to do with intentionality and reliability. We'll talk about being immediately responsive to some email messages, but reliably responsive for all email email messages that merit a response. ABOUT THE WEIGHT...
22 Feb 2025
Clean Your Inbox Fast with Outlook Quick Steps for Processing and Sorting Email
In previous episodes we've discussed processing email into an Archive folder. When the time comes to do that processing, we want to move through it at a rapid pace, quickly scanning and clearing anything from the inbox that doesn't require a response, or the creation of an action item. When we have items that we've read and want to keep, but that don't need action or a response, a rapid way to move those is with Outlook Quick Steps. This episode will teach you about how to u...
22 Feb 2025
Get to Inbox Zero Once Daily, but Only Once: The Advantages and Pitfalls of Striving for a Clean Inbox
Getting to Inbox Zero once a day can be a fantastic goal in achieving digital serenity, because it ensures that we get through even the most difficult emails that tend to sit at the bottom of the inbox, causing procrastination. It can also lead to mismanaging priorities, allowing others to dictate urgencies, and creating unnecessary back-and-forth email chains. Enjoy this episode on the importance of getting to Inbox Zero once a day, but not striving to stay there all day! ABOUT T...
19 Feb 2025
Stay at Inbox Zero by Replacing "Respond" with "Process" and Responding Surgically
So many productivity resources assume that we need to set aside time to "respond" to our email, but words matter! Even replacing that word "respond" in our minds with "process" can drastically change the way we go about sitting down to extract action items and file our email in ways that reduces clutter, keeps us at inbox zero, aligns our actions with our priorities, and keeps us from getting too many responses. Enjoy this episode about replacing "respond" with "process" and responding with p...
18 Feb 2025
The Follow Up Folder and the BCC Follow Up Strategy For Inbox Zero Accountability
It's rare that we'll give you a pass to create any folders other than the Archive and Chatter Box, because we know that it automatically creates more sorting time, and reduces efficiency. In this case, creating a Follow Up folder for those non-critical follow-ups that may need some attention from time to time, but that are not bound by strict deadlines, can help you to empty your inbox more quickly while staying on top of things. Try out the BCC / Follow-Up strategy here and see how it works ...
17 Feb 2025
Unsubscribe Relentlessly, and Use "Delete Rules" to Achieve Inbox Zero
Every time we read an email, we're drawn back into that "vortex" of the inbox. It's not just about the time it takes to read one email, it's the fact that when we do it, we tend to read more than one. Before we know it, we've been distracted from our most important priorities again, and we're letting anyone with our email address control our focus. For that reason, it's essential that we eliminate any email that isn't truly important before it even reaches our eyes. A simple way to do this is...
16 Feb 2025
Don't Use the Email Inbox as a To Do List
So many of us inadvertently use our inboxes as to do lists. We let emails pile up there, and those emails dictate what we should do next. There's so much wrong with this approach: We allow others to dictate our priorities this way, we have to re-read emails to remember what we were supposed to do with them, and worst of all, we procrastinate by doing the easiest things first, while the hardest tasks pile up and stay there overnight (sometimes for weeks). By extracting to-dos...
16 Feb 2025
Ignore the Noise with the Chatter Box
In this episode we're going to create just one rule that will filter out all of the important email you receive, and let only the most important email messages come into your inbox. It's called the "Chatter Box," and we'll explain how to set it up, and why it's so important. Though most of the advice you'll find in the Weightless Productivity podcast is about getting to inbox zero once a day through changes in behavior, just this one simple rule can allow you to get rid of so many...
14 Jan 2025
Send Less Email, Get Less Email
It may feel productive when we're processing email and responding, but often it can create a never-ending cycle that causes more back-and-forth activity. In this episode, we'll talk about how sending more email can cause you to receive more email, and why it's so important to be judicious about what you send, how much you send, and how you write what you send. Enjoy!ABOUT THE WEIGHTLESS PRODUCTIVITY PODCASTWe're here to help you solve the email problem once and for all, to get to ...
14 Jan 2025
Search, Don't Sort!
It's very common to think you need to sort each email you receive into a series of folders you've created, but have you thought about how much time that takes? This tendency to sort email can seem like it would make messages easier to find later, but it often results in an unsorted pile in the inbox that we never get to. Yet, we have powerful search tools available to us, that could let us find any email we need within seconds. What if we decided to create just one folder ca...
13 Jan 2025
Turning off Notifications and Alerts to Stay out of the Email Vortex
Every single notification, ding, bell, whistle, and alert can draw our attention out of our most important priorities and right back into the "vortex" of the email inbox. In this episode we'll discuss the importance of turning off those notifications in order to stay focused on what matters, and not get drawn back into the Vortex. We'll talk about the absurdity of allowing any email, whether it's from someone important like a client or your boss, or from a clothing company you sig...
12 Jan 2025
Defining and Deconstructing the Email Problem
In order to understand the "Email Problem," we need to delve into its origin. How did we get to a place where everyone we know seems to have an overflowing inbox, with thousands of unread messages and a backlog that feels like it will take the next three weekends to clear? Why can't we seem to handle this? Before we try again and again to dig out of it the same way we always have, an understanding of the origin and development of this monster will help.About the Elephant in ...
12 Jan 2025
Introduction to Solving the Email Problem and Getting to Inbox Zero For Good
Weightless Productivity Podcast Episode 001: Introduction and overview. Email is a significant problem, not because of the technology itself, but because of how we use it. The solution isn't found in complex software, but in a change of behavior and a structured approach. By understanding the nature of the email problem, employing behavioral techniques, and using these tools to focus on our truest objectives, we can achieve a more balanced and productive digital life. The aim is not to ...
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