do you also want an empty inbox: grab = decide!

Imagine... starting today, you will go to your mailbox in a completely different way; you open every letter, hold the advertisement, tear open packages, look at postcards, browse magazines, gawk at invoices sent and... put everything back in.

Funny? That's what you do with your mailbox!

From a-one to a-two from a-hoppekéé!

After all, how often do you grab an email, see who the sender is, read the subject or the first part and an internal voice often concludes completely unconsciously and uncontrollably...

don't do it now!

don't let that lie for a while, I'll do that later oh, better just pretend I didn't see it and certainly not respond to the reading confirmation or he'll call again...

In addition to those other emails, of course...

do it now!

oh yes, that won't take long, all of a sudden I'll finally answer, I'll get on with that immediately oh, that's a cool job, then I can just leave that tedious work from now on hey, a joke!

Watuta in your couples?

However, every email you return leaves its mark unseen; part of your brain has inevitably been touched, starts working in the background, controls chemical processes and, in addition, the mail is read, unless, of course, you reset it to unread as a smart person.

You then do that again every morning and a few more times during the day.
Well, it depends on how you want to keep your brain busy, of course, not to mention prioritizing

How do you prevent that?

Grab the reflex = decide!

From now on, if you immediately take the next step to every email you touch and process it in your organizational system, your mailbox will at least be empty in the evening and your body gets a shot of dopamine every time because you've made a decision and finished/processed something. How would that feel?

This stems from the healthy principle of first time right: if you do everything right the first time, you shouldn't do it twice. And that's actually logical, isn't it? Imagine picking up your partner's abandoned socks all over the house and dropping them again, I'll do that later.

So: first time right, grab = decide!

But... how do you decide? Read that in the follow-up blogs:
grab it = decide: ask the question SHOULD I DO IT NOW? and

And... action!

• What does your inbox currently look like and what does that unconsciously do to you?
• Slow down and pay attention today: how often do you capture something - e.g. an email - and put it away?
• How do you want to deal with that from now on?

You as a manager?

• How do you deal with your inbox and what would you like?
• How often do tasks/emails come up again in your team?
• What do you need to be able to apply first time right and grab = decision in your team from now on?