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“In other words, if you're not motivated to be nice because of the good karma, be motivated to be nice because ultimately it saves time”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Unsubscribe: How to Kill Email Anxiety, Avoid Distractions, and Get Real Work Done

“Everyone hates email. And yet we can’t stop checking it. Recent studies show that office workers dip into their inboxes on average a whopping 74 times a day and spend roughly 28 percent of their total workday on the task of reading and responding to email. What’s more, scientists have established a clear link between spending time on email and stress: the more frequently we check our email, the more frazzled we feel.”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Unsubscribe: How to Kill Email Anxiety, Avoid Distractions, and Get Real Work Done

“ACTIVITY After the requisite soul searching, write down your meaningful work goals for the next three months.”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Unsubscribe: How to Kill Email Anxiety, Avoid Distractions and Get REAL Work Done

“Getting shit done is much more professional than sticking to silly principles that don’t make sense.”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Unsubscribe: How to Kill Email Anxiety, Avoid Distractions and Get REAL Work Done

“people have what he calls a natural negativity bias toward email. 8 Goleman found that if the sender felt positive about an email, then the receiver usually just felt neutral. And if the sender felt neutral about the message, then the receiver typically felt negative about it.”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Unsubscribe: How to Kill Email Anxiety, Avoid Distractions and Get REAL Work Done

“Staying engaged with meaningful work—and fending off the allure of email— is all about making progress visible.”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Unsubscribe: How to Kill Email Anxiety, Avoid Distractions and Get REAL Work Done