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Backlogs. We all have them. But, how do you clear them and then prevent them from happening again? That’s what we’re looking at today.
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Script | 367
Hello, and welcome to episode 368 of the Your Time, Your Way Podcast. A podcast to answer all your questions about productivity, time management, self-development, and goal planning. My name is Carl Pullein, and I am your host of this show.
Organising your work, creating lists of things to do, and managing your projects in your notes are all good common-sense productivity practices. However, none of these are going to be helpful if you have huge backlogs of admin, messages, and emails creating what I call a low-level anxiety buzz.
You’re going to be stressed and distracted and in no place to be at your very best.
What’s more, this can become a chronic problem if those backlogs are growing. This is when critical things are going to get missed.
I’m often surprised to get an email from someone asking me if they can have a discount code for an early-bird discount that expired three or four weeks previously. I mean, come on. If it’s taking you three to four weeks to get to an email—even if you consider it to be a low-value email—there’s a serious