I can’t believe it’s been a month since I’ve posted here! Where does the time go?

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This year has really picked up and taken off with a bang for me. Not that work was ever particularly quiet, but since the Christmas/January school holidays ended, I’ve been busy, busy, busy, working 7 days/week (again)… and loving it. However being so busy with work - and still only having 24 hours in each day - has meant that I’ve had to get tougher in some areas, specifically emails. Some of you may remember me recently asking for tips to handle my literally 100s of emails every day. Well, part of my management plan is to only reply to emails (unless urgent) once a day. I began doing this each morning, but then found that it would take up the best part of my morning, and my most creative writing time. So now I tend to only reply to emails in the late afternoon, unless I feel it really warrants an earlier reply.

I must admit, this has made a big difference. I also used to reply to every email, more as a courtesy for the invitations, ‘thought you might like this’ information, etc. Well, I still usually do that, however there are some that I don’t acknowledge. I’m not 100% comfortable with this yet - I feel rude not responding - however I have to say it’s saving a lot of precious time.

I guess this is going to be an on-going process, but for everyone else out there who’s drowning in emails… there is a way to tread water!