eTatos - SmartNews #2: How to End the Daily Email Horror for Good
Welcome to the second issue of our topic rich eTatos - SmartNews!
If you are interested in self-improvement, productivity, future tech, tools, apps, inspiring quotes, entertainment and uplifting news you surely will find benefits in our colorful content.
Additionally, we are going to present you unique designs from “It’s Brown! It’s Black!”
Let’s get ready to smart up.
Highlights of this issue:
The Ultimate Business Email Course: Smart Mailing & Inbox Zero - Part 1
The Merge Is Done - But Bears Are Strong
NFTs to Love: The Soozies - Sweet Little Suckers
The 10 Best Movies You Need to Watch
5 Good News To Lift You Up
The Ultimate Business Email Course: Smart Mailing & Inbox Zero
CONTROL OR LOSS OF CONTROL?
Let us ask you one question: Do you actively control your communication or are you helplessly at the mercy of your email inbox and have long since lost control?
For many of us, the inbox has become a source of daily horror.
It's time to free yourself once and for all from the clutches of emails and external control. Do you want to work (and live) self-determined productively again?
If the answer is "YES!" and you want to learn how to manage your business emails with ease, this six-part course is all you need.
6 Course Objectives
Gain (back) control over your own email inbox
Communicate clearly and concisely via email
Actively stem the flood of emails
Easily get a grip on your own inbox
Organize and automate emails effortlessly
"Inbox Zero" --> At the end of the workday, you have an (almost) empty email inbox and feel good about it
Course Content (6 Parts)
Mindsets & Problems - How Emails Destroy Productivity
Smart Emailing - Creating Emails Correctly
The Email Charter - 10 Rules Against the Email Spiral
The "@1-2-3-Plus-System" - Organizing Emails Wisely
Inbox Zero and the "FASD Principle" - Mastering the Email Inbox
CONCLUSION - The Final Rules to Internalize Effective Mail Management
Part 1 - Mindsets & Problems - How Emails Destroy Productivity
333.000.000.000
In 2022, 333 billion emails will be sent daily worldwide.
It’s expected to increase to 376 billion by 2025.
The daily flood of emails is meanwhile one of the biggest productivity obstacles of all!
Depending on the study, we waste up to 50 % of our working time sorting, deleting, and replying to emails.
More facts:
615 business emails are received by an employee per week on average.
36 times per hour the inbox is checked.
It takes 16 minutes to refocus on work after receiving an email.
The 7 Biggest Email Problems
Emails are often misused - as to-do list, chat, information repository, document archive, etc.
Emails are extremely intrusive - they appear in our inbox uninvited and at any time.
Emails are often poorly worded, too long and too vague.
Emails are in many cases the wrong means of communication.
Emails easily cause misunderstandings regarding the purport of the message.
Emails destroy time and productivity.
The email channel is open for EVERYONE - consequence: There are far too many emails and important ones are mixed with unimportant ones!
Let’s have a closer look into some of the challenges we face with emails and our handling of them…
THE CONSTANT LOOK AT THE INBOX
Why do you constantly check your inbox?
Why do you immediately run after every new mail?
The hard truth:
You feel important and needed in this way!
You have the illusion to have "worked through / done" something!
Checking emails all the time has become an addiction!
Realization: You will only be really productive if you "go offline" from time to time and don't let yourself be permanently interrupted by new mails but view your new messages block by block at sensible intervals (and process them immediately).
THE OVERFLOWING INBOX
Countless unread, repeatedly read and deferred emails in the inbox are not only an obstacle to production and success, they also cause pure STRESS!
What is the effect of a full inbox?
You don't know anymore which mails are really relevant.
You don't know if there was anything important to do.
You lose the overview. You lose control.
Loss of control = dangerous and unhealthy STRESS.
THE TOTAL OVERORGANIZATION
With sophisticated filing structures, folders, and subfolders, we spend a lot of time trying to clearly structure our email filing for possible later access...
...and later we don't know in which subfolder we should search for a special mail...
...or if a certain information was available via email at all or if we have to search in another medium (paper filing, file filing...).
OPEN FOR EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE
Emails are a "means of transport" for everything imaginable.
The email inbox is for many like a to-do list to which anyone who wants can add a task!
We react only ad hoc to the demands of other people and neglect our own priorities!
Change Your Mindset!
The first – and probably most important – step to get back control is to understand the problems, realize the challenges and change your own mindset:
1. NOBODY has time & desire to read long emails!
2. Deferred emails are not clear tasks!
3. My inbox does not determine my work focus and email communication is not instant messaging!
4. A detailed filing structure does not belong in Outlook or any other mail system!
5. The time-consuming sorting of emails is a waste of time!
6. Tomorrow, next week or whenever I will probably not have more time available than today!
7. I view an email and decide immediately! Based on the principle taught during this course.
8. I have courage to make a decision and courage for the gap! E.g., not every e-mail must be read through (completely).
“Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.” — Robert J. Sawyer
Part 2 - Smart Emailing - Creating Emails Correctly
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To be continued next month in SmartNews #3
The Merge Is Done - But Bears Are Strong
It was a success! After six years of preparation the highly anticipated transition from Prof of Work to Prof of Stake finally happened. It was the first time in history that a blockchain was switched to a different consensus method while operating.
Ethereum is now 99.9 % more energy efficient than before. A big obstacle for institutional investors who need to focus on ESG criteria has disappeared. The value of ETH would have probably skyrocket, if it happened during the bull market. But in the current bear market with incredible high inflation rates and regulatory uncertainty, investors are cautious. ETH lost nearly 20 % of its market capitalization since the Merge.
In the long run however, Ethereum improved its change to become the main foundation for the Web3.
Scalability is Ethereum’s post-Merge focus: Vitalik Buterin — forkast.news Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin said the next step for Ethereum after “The Merge” is scalability, speaking at Circle's Converge22 conference.
NFTs to Love: The Soozies - Sweet Little Suckers
Aren’t they cute? Aren’t they adorable?
We proudly present: The Soozies!
These 7 sweet little suckers are only the start of a bigger collection. Coming exclusively as NFTs to OpenSea. And later this year you will find them on t-shirts, cups and so much more…
The 10 Best Movies You Need to Watch
In our first issue we covered the best TV shows. This time we present you the best movies ever made regarding to the ratings on IMDb.
Here are the official top 10:
10) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Western from Sergio Leone with Clint Eastwood. A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery.
9) The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
The start of the fantasy trilogy from Peter Jackson. A meek Hobbit from the Shire and eight companions set out on a journey to destroy the powerful One Ring and save Middle-earth from the Dark Lord Sauron.
8) Pulp Fiction (1994)
Cult movie from Quentin Tarantino with John Travolta, Uma Thurman and Samuel L. Jackson. The lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster and his wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.
7) The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
The final confrontation between the forces of good and evil fighting for control of the future of Middle-earth.
6) Schindler's List (1993)
Historical drama from Steven Spielberg. In German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.
5) 12 Angry Men (1957)
Intensive drama from Sidney Lumet with Henry Fonda. The jury in a New York City murder trial is frustrated by a single member whose skeptical caution forces them to more carefully consider the evidence before jumping to a hasty verdict.
4) The Godfather Part II (1974)
Second part of the underworld drama from Francis Ford Coppola. The early life and career of Vito Corleone (Robert De Niro) in 1920s New York City is portrayed, while his son, Michael (Al Pacino), expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate.
3) The Dark Knight (2008)
Superhero movie from Christopher Nolan. When the menace known as the Joker (Heath Ledger) wreaks havoc and chaos on the people of Gotham, Batman (Christian Bale) must accept one of the greatest psychological and physical tests of his ability to fight injustice.
2) The Godfather (1972)
First part of the crime drama from Francis Ford Coppola. The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty (Marlon Brando) in postwar New York City transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant youngest son.
An the best movie in the world regarding to IMDb is:
1) The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Drama from Frank Darabont. Two imprisoned men (Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman) bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency.
IMDb, an Amazon company — www.imdb.com
Complete list of the top 250 movies as rated by IMDb users.
Our news channels are filled with negative headlines: Crimes, wars, deaths, crises, disasters, conflicts... Did you ever think about what this constant flow of negativity causes to you? We say it's time for another kind of news. Focused on the positive news the world around us delivers. And a category just perfect for finishing our eTatos - SmartNews.
Here Are 5 GOOD NEWS Curated To Lift You Up:
Dozens More Bison Released Onto Rosebud Sioux Reservation To Roam Free — gasanature.org
Another 60 bison are able to call the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation in South Dakota home.
First Native American woman to travel to space - BBC News — www.bbc.com
Astronaut Nicole Aunapu Mann, of the Wailacki of the Round Valley Indian Tribes, will be the first Native American woman in Space.
James Webb Space Telescope snags its 1st direct photo of an alien world | Space — www.space.com The James Webb Space Telescope took its first direct image of a planet orbiting a distant star, proving its potential to revolutionize exoplanet research.
Diet for a hotter climate: five plants that could help feed the world | Environment | The Guardian
As the planet warms, these five drought-tolerant and highly nutritious crops offer hope for greater resiliency.
This German company is making whirlpools to clean microplastics from water | CNN — edition.cnn.com
“Our mission is to keep the world’s water supply safe.” Dr. Katrin Schuhen, inventor and founder of Wasser 3.0
To Be Continued...
That’s it for our second issue. Let us know if you enjoyed it.
Carpe diem & be kind.
Dirk & Raquel
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