Email Once a Day
I’ve decided to start checking my email once a day, in the morning.
Over the next 30 years, I figure I’ll be saving myself quite a bit of time by making this simple “sacrifice”. Though it’s really not a sacrifice, as the benefits are easy to see.
Here’s what I figure.
Say checking email wastes 20 seconds (in terms of waiting for the email to arrive, and also in terms of time spent to get back to what i was doing).
Assuming that I check email once a day, rather than say 4, I’m saving
3 * 20 seconds = 1 minute per day
365 minutes per year = 6 hours / year
180 hours over the next 30 years
If I had a full time job doing nothing but checking email, this would equate to me working full time for 4 1/2 weeks.
Working full time for 4 1/2 weeks for no pay only to only check my email?
No thanks. I’ll find something else to do with my time.