Unsubscribe: How to Kill Email Anxiety, Avoid Distractions and Get REAL Work Done

Review Email - it's a good servant but a bad master. To be happier, more productive, and more creative, we need email habits that help us focus on what matters most. Packed with insights, practical strategies, and engaging illustrations, UNSUBSCRIBE is an invaluable resource for making great use of email. -- Gretchen Rubin, New York Times bestselling author of THE HAPPINESS PROJECT This is a vitally important book, an urgent call for reason that can transform the way you spend hours every day. I'm the first person who needs this advice, and I'm going to take it, starting now. -- Seth Godin Best-selling author Glei has a plan to help you regain control, she will make you think: 'Who are the people who matter?' and 'WTF are you trying to accomplish anyway?'. . . With short sections and cartoons, it's a really fun read. Follow Glei's advice and you will regain control of your technology and no longer be a slave to your e-mails ― Chat It's Fate! Product Description The average person checks email 77 times a day, sends and receives more than 122 email messages a day and spends nearly a third of their workweek managing a constant influx of email. Even when we're away from work, checking email is the most popular activity we engage in on our mobile devices. Email is a powerful and essential tool - but it has become a near-constant source of frustration, anxiety and distraction from our work. In this insightful and intensely practical book, Jocelyn K. Glei explains why email is so overwhelming and addicting, and lays out strategies for limiting the energy you spend on it. These include setting meaningful work goals, clarifying to yourself which people and messages truly matter and creating a daily routine that aligns with your natural creative rhythms. Through her actionable, thoughtful advice, Glei will help you to: - Stop letting email dictate your mood, your focus and your to-do list - Process your inbox efficiently - Compose messages that get people to take action - Establish boundaries that allow you to engage in more meaningful work. Book Description Unsubscribe shows readers how to repair their relationship with email, transforming it from a constant source of stress and distraction into a productive tool again. From the Back Cover 'Unsubscribe is an unfailingly smart, funny, and down-to-earth guide to mastering email so that it no longer masters us' - Oliver Burkeman, author of The Antidote Let's face it: email is killing your productivity. What was once a powerful and essential tool for doing our daily work has become a near-constant source of frustration, anxiety and distraction from our work. In Unsubscribe, Jocelyn K. Glei will show you how to tame your inbox, reclaim your productivity, and rediscover your creativity with tips on how to: * Establish boundaries and routines that free up time for meaningful work * Stop letting email dictate your mood, your focus and your to-do list * Process your inbox based on what (and who) really matters to you * Craft messages that get people to pay attention and take action * Manage clients, customers and critics with tact and humanity With illustrations, activities, and word-for-word scripts, Unsubscribe makes learning how to become a zen master of email simple. Are you ready to unsubscribe from inbox angst? About the Author Jocelyn K. Glei is the bestselling author and editor of three books: Manage Your Day-to-Day, Maximize Your Potential and Make Your Mark. Glei is the founding editor of the award-winning 99U.com website, which has won two Webby Awards for 'Best Cultural Blog' and built a rabid fan base of creatives, entrepreneurs and productivity geeks. She also led the curation of the popular 99U Conference, which draws over 1,000 creatives from all over the world each year, and has presented talks from an incredible crop of inspirational speakers, including Brené Brown, Jonathan Adler, Gretchen Rubin, and many more.