Show Notes
You answer email faster than you did a year ago. The pile is still there tomorrow, now with Slack and WhatsApp too.
Your inbox is a battle you can't win, and you're paying for it with your sharpest hours.
Cyril Peupion, author of Less Achieves More, has spent 20 years teaching the busiest executives at companies like Microsoft and American Express how to get more done.
The usual response to a pile like that is to throw more hours at the problem. Cyril coached a leader living it: two young kids she wasn't seeing, a husband complaining about her crazy hours and traveling, and, by her own account, health that sucked. She told him she'd resign in six months. Six months later she had already hit her target for the year and stopped working weekends. She was painting and playing piano again.
In this episode, you'll learn:
How to get a handle on your email and DMs
Why Cyril deletes 90% of the email he receives
How many of your last 10 emails will matter long term
Why we bias towards more instead of less
Why working over 50 hours a week makes you worse
Chapters:
[00:00] Why Doing More Is Making Work Harder
[08:29] Why You Keep Trying to Add More
[16:19] When You Should END Your Work Week
[28:32] How to Get on Top of Your Email
[32:55] Connect Your Tasks to Your Time
[37:34] Stop Checking Email All Day
[47:49] Challenge: Put Your Tasks on the Calendar
Links & Tools from This Episode:
• The ONE Thing Operating System
• Less Achieves More by Cyril Peupion
• Cyril Peupion’s Website
• Free Resources
Produced by NOVA
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