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  1. Kat
    November 12, 2015 @ 10:25 pm

    your tips are great but i dont really agree with this. I feel like this would make me feel completely scattered. When i’m on my computer trying to get one things done and i have an email coming through eery 10 minutes. if i took 2 minutes to reply to everything i would be so incredibly distracted id never get anything done. i feel like this promotes way too much multitasking.

    i save all those little task for a one hour block and get them all done then

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  2. Ajarae Coleman
    November 13, 2015 @ 5:32 am

    Hi, Kat! Actually, an essential aspect of making this tip work in NOT checking your emails as they come in. Turn off your notifications and handle your emails when you actually have time to deal with them… when you have that one hour block, as you say. My point (or David Allen’s point) is that you should just deal with the 2 minutes tasks during that block instead of reading them, or skimming them, and delaying the decision of dealing with them. Hope that clarifies things! You should definitely check out the book if you’re interested in productivity… Allen has time to go into depth on the whole method there.

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