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that his work life in Silicon Valley was unsustainable after his girlfriend left
him over his work hours. We can learn from his mistake without sacrificing
our love lives.

One of Ferriss’s rules, for instance, is that he only checks his email once a
week. That may sound extreme but his point is that because he only replies
on a set day, his customers and co-workers have adapted and his business
doesn’t fall apart. And he spends a fraction of his time dealing with email.

So remember Franklin and don’t let your business run your life. Stop seeing
time spent at work (yours or your employees’) as being automatically good,
and start thinking about whether those long hours mean productivity or a
failure to empower people. We all know that it’s easier to waste time in
front of a computer so take a leaf from the Germans and encourage a
culture where long hours, far from being approved of, are instead frowned
on as a sure sign of poor time management.

HERE’S AN IDEA FOR YOU…
Set aside a strict time slot in the morning (or morning and evening, if
you must) and don’t even look at your email outside of that. Let others
know this is your routine and you’ll be surprised how much less time
you spend digging your way out of an inbox.