Don’t Look at Your Inbox First Thing in the Morning

Look at your Calendar BEFORE your look at your Inbox in the morning. Why?

Because email first thing in the morning can lead to a very “unproductive day”. It can easily put you into fire-fighting mode instead of strategic mode for most of your day.

The emails in your Inbox often represent the priorities of others. This may be very different from your own priorities.

Start the day by looking at your Calendar and seeing what you have already scheduled for the day. Schedule any new things that you want to do today that are important to you and your business. Then look at your Inbox.

I have setup my own Outlook to open up displaying the Calendar instead of the Outbox. Here’s how you can do the same.

Click Tools-Options.
Select the Others tab.
Click Advanced Options. The startup folder is displayed at the top of the screen.
Click the Browse button to select the Calendar.

The next time your open Outlook, you’ll be looking at your Calendar.