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Dave's Bit Literacy testimonial
Testimonial time. Dave Evans read, and put into practice, just the first few pages of Bit Literacy and got his inbox from 2,734 messages down to 19... and then wrote me:
The difference is huge. I can actually see who I am supposed to be responding to. The more I got into Bit Literacy the more I realized how clueless I was when it came to time management and task prioritization.Some people stop when they get to just a few messages; after all, 19 is a much better number than 2,734. But Dave went the distance and got to zero. So I asked Dave if there was any difference in seeing the empty inbox, once he went from 19 to 0. His reply:
Yes, definitely. It is either zero or it is not -- as you say in your book, it's not enough to be "close to zero." The whole point -- and what I was obvioulsy missing -- is that managing your inbox means finishing that job, each day. That means that everything has been closed, and by definition that means "zero."If you've never seen an empty inbox, you owe it to yourself to see what it feels like.
I've now become entirely distrustful of anyone who has anything in their inbox: Are they noticing my emails? Are they going to follow up as needed? I'm going to have to get everyone in my office to follow the plan or I think I'll become a true Paranoid...