Here’s a quick tip to be more productive at your desk…<\/p>\n
When I open my email program in the morning, my new email does not pour in until I ask for it with the “send and receive” button. This gives me a chance to look through everything critical in my in box from the day before. <\/p>\n
When I sit down at my computer after a long or short break, I can gather my thoughts, sort through the day’s mail so far, and act on anything that needs cleaning up. Then, and only then, will I check my mail, by pressing the “send and receive” button. <\/p>\n
I never get email unless I WANT it at the moment. It keeps me from getting distracted and running off in too many different directions at once. <\/p>\n
To turn off your automatic send and recieve…<\/p>\n
In Outlook Express:
\nTools – Options – General tab and UNcheck the box at the bottom for “check for new mail every X minutes.<\/p>\n
In Outlook (2003 or XP)
\nTools – Options – mail setup tab – Send\/recieve button and UNcheck the box for “schedule an automatic send\/receive every X minutes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Do yourself a favor and turn off your email “auto fetch” so you can get some work done! Cel phones, and text messages can require immediate responses, but emails do not. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-how-to","category-general-interest"],"yoast_head":"\n