Your Wheelhouse (In or Out of your Inbox)

Productive Flourishing: As you already know, a big part of dealing with email is dealing with anxiety. Email Triage did an incredible job of helping me with this — it’s very soothing! — but I noticed that even after I was done, I would still look at my “respond to these” emails and be very nervous about how (and how soon) to respond to them. I was receiving so many important messages on a regular basis that I was suddenly forced to prioritize some and make others wait, rather than being able to focus only on “the important emails” and “the not-so-important emails” — which made me feel anxious and nervous about how to decide what to handle first, even once I’d implemented Charlie’s suggestions. What I discovered using this over time, however, was that there were two important categories of “response needed” emails for me: Wheelhouse emails, and Peripheral emails. Once I gone through the Email Triage process, I started to think of the remaining items in these two contexts.