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66% of people check email first thing, but only 34% start with a plan. Email-first workers are 82% more likely to feel their day is wasted. The fix: write down your top priorities and spend the first hour on them before opening your inbox.
66% of people check email first thing, but only 34% start with a plan. Email-first workers are 82% more likely to feel their day is wasted. The fix: write down your top priorities and spend the first hour on them before opening your inbox.
If the first thing you do every morning is check your email, you're sabotaging your whole day. Thousands of people took our time management test. 66% check email or voicemail first thing. Only 34% start with a plan for the day. The email-first people were 82% more likely to say over half of their workday is wasted. But the planners were 45% more likely to leave work feeling like today was a really successful day. The mechanism here is simple. The moment you open your email, you're executing other people's agendas, your colleagues' requests, somebody else's priority. And once your own goals go on the back burner at 7:00 AM, it is really hard to flip that switch back later in the day. So before you touch your email, write down the one or two things that would make today a really successful day, and then give yourself that first hour to go tackle those things. Everybody else can have you at 8:00 or 9:00.
