Work Less and Do More

I wrote an article today on my main blog about Hillary’s speech last night and whether we know the reasons for our own success. (And by the way, I’m not commenting on whether I think Hillary understands her own success. I don’t know enough about her life to say one way or the other. I’m [...]

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Someone—not me—is coming out with a book called “Work Less, Do More” in just a few weeks. Rats rats rats rats rats. I so loved that title. Any suggestions? I’m at a loss. Grumble. Grumble. Grumble.
The way I’m thinking about it, the book is me writing to my 5-year-old nephew, giving him lots of tips [...]

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I’m stumped. We’ve had 500 visitors to YouAreNotYourInbox.com, from a variety of sources, and under 1% purchase from people who find the product via that page.
This is what we call a “learning opportunity.”
If you have visited and decided not to buy, would you be willing to share your reasons? (If you would like to share [...]

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I’m collecting the final list of tips for the book. I’m noticing there are two categories of tips and am not sure they would work together in a book. Here are samples:

Broad-stroke
Narrow

Use networking for your job search
Name files YYYYMMDD when they contain dates

Cultivate your intuition for decision-making
Clear your inbox backlog by deleting extra messages.

Will these [...]

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Conventional wisdom has it that you should sandwich negative feedback between two pieces of positive feedback. You can read about “the hamburger method” here.
Shelle Rose Charvet points out that most people already know the method. Now, when they hear positive feedback, they simply bypass it and wait fo the shoe to drop (then they ignore [...]

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My new product, “You Are Not Your Inbox: Overcoming Email Overload” is ready! The question now is … how do I market it? Can you chime in with ideas and insights?

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I’m overloaded! Yes, it happens to me, too
The problem happens when I take on a new project, here’s a delay in the project (e.g. I’m waiting for someone to get me a document), and during that delay, I start something new. Once the delay is over, I now have two projects on my plate that [...]

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