You might think I write a post each weekday for this blog.

You might also think that I wrote this blog post on the date that it was posted.

This will be posted on Friday June 27, but right now, when I am writing this, it is Saturday June 21. Actually, I wrote all of this weeks posts in advance (on June 21).

I’m taking the advice of Darren Rowse and batching my work (dedicated extended periods of time to one task (such as blogging) instead of multitasking or jumping back and forth between tasks, which kills momentum and really slows down progress.

Try out batching work. You’ll love it.

An Idea: Quit checking your emails in the morning. Why?   Because it keeps your head clear and makes your morning so much more productive.

Instead of crises (which make themselves known via email) controlling your morning, you can use the morning to focus exclusively on getting the most important (often non-urgent) things done.  Otherwise (if you’re like me), you’ll find yourself jumping from crisis to crisis and wind up at the end of the day without the most important things being accomplished.

Even if you just check your email and commit to not responding to the afternoon, that is still going to mess up your focus for the morning; you’ll have a hard time concentrating, so better to just not check your email

The credit for this idea goes to Timothy Ferris (he actually recommends working towards checking email only once a week).  I can vouch for it’s effectiveness after following his advice for the past couple months.  Give it a try for a month and see if you ever go back to morning emails.  Seriously.  Try it out!