Compliments of Michael Loke via Flickr
Clearing one’s mind is both a cause and effect of greater control. If you are anxious, being disorganized serves to heighten the madness because it magnifies the havoc in a given situation. Your thought process and your physical surroundings thus mirror one another. The paradoxical pairing down of our possessions and our resultant happiness is not therefore an accident, but rather a byproduct of removing what is burdensome. Turn the page…
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Morgenstern (2009) urges us to fight the tendency to immediately check e-mail first thing in the morning, and instead spend the time “master planning” our day.
It’s important to establish set times (three or four per day) to check e-mail correspondence. Maltz (1960) argues “…while many run-of-the mill executives permit continuous interruptions by phone, intercom, or walk-ins while they are meeting with someone or reviewing important information, the most successful executives I know tolerate no such chaos” (p. 112). Closing your e-mail provider (as opposed to simply minimizing it) will prevent the constant back ground “ding” that alerts you to incoming mail. Turn the page…
Jackie Gilbert is a Professor of Management in the Middle Tennessee State University College of Business.
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