Blog Entries http://www.success.net.au Sat, 31 Jul 2010 09:41:21 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.success.net.au/myblog/how-to-manage-your-email-inbox-lessons-1-5-547.html <p class="MsoNormal">Recently I wrote a book called recently I wrote a book called &quot;The E-mail Manual&quot;. It is the book you should have received when you first started using e-mail. I think if everybody had a copy of this book on their desks and read it before they started using e-mail, there would be a fewer problems and issues with using and managing e-mail.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">I intend to put together a number of articles where I extract these tips, ideas and strategies f [...] paul@success.net Mon, 21 Dec 2009 07:00:00 +0100 zero inbox work smarts coach work smarts reduce email overload paul puckridge manage your inbox email management eliminate email overload control your email http://www.success.net.au/myblog/how-to-manage-your-email-inbox-lessons-6-10.html <p>Is your inbox overflowing? Would you like to feel more in control of your inbox? In this article I will be sharing five strategies from my book, &quot;The E-mail Manual&quot;. It is the book you should have received when you first started using e-mail. After you have read these five strategies, why not have a look for the other articles where I cover other ideas and insights about using e-mail more effectively.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>6. Learn to type (Properly)</p> <p>Your ability to type quic [...] paul@success.net Mon, 21 Dec 2009 07:00:00 +0100 zero inbox work smarts coach work smarts reduce email overload paul puckridge manage your inbox email management eliminate email overload control your email http://www.success.net.au/myblog/how-to-manage-your-email-inbox-lessons-11-15.html <p>If only your Microsoft Outlook program came with a manual that taught you how to better manage your e-mail! That&#39;s why I have put together my new book called &quot;The E-mail Manual&quot;. It is the book you should have received when you first started using e-mail. I think if everybody had a copy of this book on their desks and read it before they started using e-mail, there would be a fewer problems and issues with using and managing e-mail. Please enjoy these 5 email strategies. Be on t [...] paul@success.net Mon, 21 Dec 2009 07:00:00 +0100 zero inbox work smarts coach work smarts reduce email overload paul puckridge manage your inbox email management eliminate email overload control your email http://www.success.net.au/myblog/how-to-manage-your-email-inbox-lessons-16-20.html <p>Wasn&#39;t e-mail supposed to make our life less complicated? Do you find yourself spending way too much time on e-mail every day? Would you like to reduce the size of your ever expanding inbox? That&#39;s why I have put together my new book called &quot;The E-mail Manual&quot;. It is the book you should have received when you first started using e-mail. I think if everybody had a copy of this book on their desks and read it before they started using e-mail, there would be a fewer problems an [...] paul@success.net Mon, 21 Dec 2009 07:00:00 +0100 zero inbox work smarts coach work smarts reduce email overload paul puckridge email management eliminate email overload control your email http://www.success.net.au/myblog/how-to-manage-your-email-inbox-lessons-21-25.html <p class="MsoNormal">I get really depressed when I hit send and receive and end up with 30 or 40 new e-mails coming into my inbox. How about you? Are you looking for a way to better manage your e-mail? Would you like to feel more in control, rather than having your e-mail control you? That&#39;s why I have put together my new book called &quot;The E-mail Manual&quot;. It is the book you should have received when you first started using e-mail. I think if everybody had a copy of this book on [...] paul@success.net Sun, 20 Dec 2009 07:00:00 +0100 zero inbox work smarts coach work smarts reduce email overload paul puckridge email management eliminate email overload control your email http://www.success.net.au/myblog/how-to-manage-your-email-inbox-lessons-26-30.html <p>Do you go home at night and login to your e-mail? Do you sit watching TV with one eye on the TV program and the other looking at your inbox? How do you feel about that?</p> <p><br /> Does your partner a key issue of spending more time on your e-mail than with them? That&#39;s why I have put together my new book called &quot;The E-mail Manual&quot;. It is the book you should have received when you first started using e-mail. I think if everybody had a copy of this book on their desks and read [...] paul@success.net Sun, 20 Dec 2009 07:00:00 +0100 zero inbox work smarts coach work smarts reduce email overload email management eliminate email overload control your email http://www.success.net.au/myblog/how-to-manage-your-email-inbox-lessons-31-35.html <p>Could it be possible that you are addicted to e-mail? Do you get withdrawal symptoms if you haven&#39;t received an e-mail within 15 or 20 minutes? Do you constantly feel the need to look at your Blackberry or iPhone? If you have answered yes, you might be addicted to e-mail overload. Wasn&#39;t the world less complicated before e-mail arrived? Well, whether you like it or not, it is a reality. E-mail is here to stay and it is only going to increase in the weeks, months and years ahead. That& [...] paul@success.net Sun, 20 Dec 2009 07:00:00 +0100 zero inbox work smarts coach work smarts reduce email overload paul puckridge email management eliminate email overload control your email http://www.success.net.au/myblog/how-to-manage-your-email-inbox-lessons-36-40.html <p>Do you dread going away for a few days on a holiday knowing that when you come back you will have hundreds of new e-mails in your inbox? Do you spend the first morning you arrive back at work going through a huge inbox? Would you like to reduce the size of your inbox and feel more in control? If you answered yes I have some great news; I can offer you some ideas and suggestions to take back control of your inbox.</p> <p>That&#39;s why I have put together my new book called &quot;The E-mail Ma [...] paul@success.net Sun, 20 Dec 2009 07:00:00 +0100 zero inbox work smarts coach work smarts paul puckridge manage your inbox email management eliminate email overload control your email http://www.success.net.au/myblog/how-to-manage-your-email-inbox-lessons-41-45.html <p>Isn&#39;t it interesting that most people in the workplace have never had any formal training about better managing their e-mail! E-mail is now the most important communication tool in the workplace. A few years ago most of us would pick up the telephone and call someone. Today, it&#39;s much easier to send them an e-mail. This all sounds very good, but why it is doing is that it is clogging up our inbox and taking us away from doing important work. Don&#39;t get me wrong, e-mail is a very im [...] paul@success.net Sun, 20 Dec 2009 07:00:00 +0100 zero inbox work smarts coach work smarts reduce email overload manage your inbox email management eliminate email overload control your email http://www.success.net.au/myblog/how-to-manage-your-email-inbox-lessons-46-50.html <p>Do you remember what it was like to be at work without having e-mail spurting into your inbox every few minutes? If you are a Generation Y employee, you probably grew up with e-mail. On the other hand, if you are a Baby Boomer and e-mail is something that you have only started using the past decade or so, learning how to manage and interact with e-mail could be a struggle. If you haven&#39;t received any formal training in learning how to better manage e-mail, you are probably doing your best [...] paul@success.net Sun, 20 Dec 2009 07:00:00 +0100 zero inbox work smarts coach work smarts reduce email overload manage your inbox email management eliminate email overload control your email http://www.success.net.au/myblog/how-to-manage-your-email-inbox-lessons-51-55.html <p>Did you know that one of the worst things you can do from time management and productivity perspective is to coming to work in the morning and start checking and answering e-mails before planning your day! When you come into work and the first thing you do is log on and start checking e-mails, you put yourself in a reactionary mode to the rest of the day. Would you like to better manage your e-mail and not be so reactionar? If you answered yes I have some great news; I can offer you some idea [...] paul@success.net Sun, 20 Dec 2009 07:00:00 +0100 zero inbox work smarts coach work smarts reduce email overload manage your inbox email management eliminate email overload control your email http://www.success.net.au/myblog/how-to-manage-your-email-inbox-lessons-56-60.html <p>Have you ever taken stock of how many minutes or hours a day you are spending answering e-mail? The average worker in Australia spends around 1/2 to 2 hours a day using e-mail. That really is a significant amount of time. Here&#39;s an interesting question. How many e-mails out of every 10 that you receive are really critical and important? How many e-mails must be answered immediately? When asked this question in my Zero Inbox seminars the answer is usually one or 2/10 are critical. That&#39 [...] paul@success.net Sat, 19 Dec 2009 07:00:00 +0100 zero inbox work smarts coach work smarts reduce email overload paul puckridge email management eliminate email overload control your email http://www.success.net.au/myblog/how-to-manage-your-email-inbox-lessons-61-65.html <p>What would you do if you were able to find an extra 30 minutes to one hour a day of extra time and productivity, simply by managing your e-mail and your inbox better? What would you do with your time? I&#39;m sure like most of us, there are more important projects and tasks that we have to undertake. While e-mail is an important tool, many professional people had never learnt the strategies in managing their inbox.&nbsp; That&#39;s why I have put together my new book called &quot;The E-mail M [...] paul@success.net Sat, 19 Dec 2009 07:00:00 +0100 work smarts coach work smarts reduce email overload manage your inbox email management eliminate email overload control your email http://www.success.net.au/myblog/how-to-manage-your-email-inbox-lessons-66-71.html <p>Who do you know that is really well-organised when it comes to managing e-mail and their inbox? I believe that success leaves clues and that one way of becoming more organised regarding your e-mail is to find out what other successful people are doing in managing their inbox and look for ways to emulate that behaviour. Amazingly, it&#39;s quite easy to get a grip on managing your e-mail and reducing the size of your inbox. All it takes is a basic understanding of the principles of managing e- [...] paul@success.net Sat, 19 Dec 2009 07:00:00 +0100 zero inbox work smarts coach work smarts reduce email overload paul puckridge email management eliminate email overload control your email http://www.success.net.au/myblog/something-from-nothing.html <p>Is it possible that you can still get something from nothing? Well on the Internet, there are hundreds of sites that have really cool products and services that you can use free of charge.</p> <p>I&#39;m including a list of sites that I came across recently at http://www.theworkathomewoman.com</p> <p>I&#39;ve had a look at quite a number of these sites myself and the once I had visited look fantastic. I suggest you take a moment (in your downtime) to have a look at some of the sites and see w [...] paul@success.net Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:00:00 +0100 work smarts coach work smarts training seminars Sydney training seminars melbourne the success institute sydney Puckridge paul puckridge http://www.success.net.au/myblog/reduce-your-personal-stress.html <p>According to a report that I was reading recently, one in every three adults suffers from moderate to high levels of personal stress. With so much bad news in the papers and on television, uncertainty about the economy and the pressure of daily life, is it any wonder more of us are feeling stressed.</p> Every year nearly something close to 50,000 Australians are admitted to hospital due to stress-related disorders.Stress requires more people to take time off work than any other health conditi [...] paul@success.net Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:00:00 +0100 worksmarts coach worksmart work smarts time management the success institute paul puckridge gtd get things done http://www.success.net.au/myblog/get-that-monkey-off-your-back.html <p>Whether you&rsquo;re the CEO of a multi-million dollar business, a manager of a large team, a supervisor or a hard working employee, chances are there&rsquo;s someone in your working life who will try to load extra things onto you. These &lsquo;extra tasks&rsquo; are often called the &lsquo;monkey on our back&rsquo;.</p> <p>Even in your family or personal friendships you can probably think of people who are good at trying to throw monkeys onto your back!</p> <p>Meet the monkey!<br /> Monkeys [...] paul@success.net Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:00:00 +0100 worksmarts coach worksmart work smarts time management the success institute gtd get things done http://www.success.net.au/myblog/managing-time-while-commuting.html <p>Do you ever sit in traffic on the way to work listening to the radio, only to be bored by a over-the-top DJ rambling on about something stupid? Or maybe you find yourself staring out of the window of a train or bus wishing it would hurry up so that you can get to the million and one things you need to do today?</p> <p>According to some interesting statistics that I was reading recently, the average worker spends at least an hour a day travelling to and from work, with some people spending mor [...] paul@success.net Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:00:00 +0100 worksmarts coach worksmart work smarts time management the success institute paul puckridge gtd get things done http://www.success.net.au/myblog/learn-to-say-no.html <p>Do you ever find it hard saying &ldquo;no&rdquo; to colleagues? Sometimes saying &ldquo;yes&rdquo; seems like the easier option, however by saying &ldquo;yes&rdquo; to extra work, you could be setting yourself up for added stress and possible failure. There are only so many hours in your day and you can only get so much work done. Saying &ldquo;yes&rdquo; when you mean &ldquo;no&rdquo; can be dangerous. Who would have thought that &ldquo;yes&rdquo;, that little three-letter word could cause s [...] paul@success.net Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:00:00 +0100 worksmarts coach worksmart work smarts time management the success institute paul puckridge gtd get things done http://www.success.net.au/myblog/do-you-use-a-spiral-notebook.html <p>You are on the phone talking to a customer when your manager walks into your work area. He needs you to do something for him. Now the fun starts as you desperately start searching for a piece of paper to start scratching down notes. In my travels I am always amazed when I observe so many managers and employees still using paper scraps and sticky notes to write down important information.</p> <p>I suspect the &lsquo;hunting and pecking&rsquo; for something to write on is a common scene in so m [...] paul@success.net Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:00:00 +0100 worksmarts coach worksmart work smarts time management the success institute paul puckridge gtd get things done