I made mention a few months ago, that I try to spend some time each season looking at the things I do the most often. It's a principle that I first saw in a book by Tom Peters. The idea being that we focus a lot of time and energy into improving our shortcomings--starting with the most dire need. It can be even more impactful to shave a few seconds off something you do several times a day.
I recently set up some automated sorting in my main email and was shocked at how much time it gave me. I know better, but as so often happens, I rediscover the truth and become sold anew on it.
Instructions for filtering email:
For Gmail can be found here, https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6579?hl=en or here, http://www.wikihow.com/Create-a-Filter-in-Gmail
For Hotmail found here, http://email.about.com/od/windowslivehotmailtips/qt/How_to_Set_Up_an_Incoming_Mail_Filter_in_Windows_Live_Hotmai.htm
Here's a bonus video on making changes to the normal word template that gives me several minutes a day.
God Bless!
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