#BusinessInsider - 3 Steps for Successful Recovery From a Business Trip Jetting off to a quick, mid-week meeting can be one of the more rewarding experiences as a successful entrepreneur. But that short-hop, overnight to a St. Louis or an Atlanta can also be exhausting. If you do not have a personal productivity strategy, even a short business trip can leave you buried under unanswered emails and voice messages. Thats why youll definitely want to put these three strategies into place for effectively managing your time, your attention, and of course, your email. 1. Evolve your email The most daunting challenge of business trips is dealing with the hundreds of email messages that pile up when youre away. The secret is a little process I like to call the four pass technique. Whether youve been gone 12 hours or 12 days, you can use this process to significantly cut down on your email processing time: First pass: Sort by subject, since there will often be an entire conversation containing several or more messages about the same subject. For multiple messages with the same subject line, delete everything but the most recent one, and then (after taking all your “passes”) read that one from the bottom up. This eliminates dozens of messages in just a minute or two. 2. Look for mindfulness gaps A work trip doesnt have to mean working 24/7 while you’re gone. Yet often, after a full day in meetings, we tend to grab a quick bite and head to the hotel room to process emails or work until the late-night hours. Then, you keep squeezing “one more thing” into every spare minute of travel time, returning home bleary-eyed and fried. Sound familiar? Instead, embrace the built-in downtime of travel. Cab and shuttle rides, waiting to board a flight and layovers are all perfect opportunities to practice habits that recharge you. Let your mind wander, take in your surroundings and experience the world head-up (rather than bent over your mobile device). read on: entrepreneur/article/238351
Posted on: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 11:00:00 +0000
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