Michael T. Burns

I have decided to monitor the number of conscious decisions required of me in a day.  Just to get my desk cleared off enough to start working required 32 decisions.  If I had gotten hung up on any one of them, I would still not be ready to work.

Going through email required countless decisions, but for a single message the following are required:  Open or delete, if open read or skim, take action or not, once read delete or file.  The biggest question is how many emails we read provide a chance for action?  If they do not require an action of some sort they provided only information.  Are we better for that info or not?