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3 Ways Changing Your Thinking Will Tame Your Inbox

Written by: Audrey Fairbrother

Every business leader knows checking your email can be a huge time-suck. But a recent study by Adobe describes this problem with some pretty surprising numbers. According to its data, the average white collar worker will spend 4.1 hours checking their work email each day. That’s 20.5 hours each week, more than 1,000 hours each year, more than 47,000 hours over a career! Yikes.

So how do we curb it and get back that precious time? We asked Think Productive Productivity Ninja and Author of How to be REALLY Productive, Grace Marshall, to share her unique tips with us on how to truly tame your unruly inbox for good.

Need more help getting your inbox to zero? Check out Think Productive’s time management training and email workshop.

Updated on June 10th, 2022

About the author: Audrey Fairbrother is the Marketing Manager here at Boldly, when she's not spreading information about the benefits and joys of a premium remote team, she enjoys drinking a good coffee or going for a run in her hometown of Denver, CO.