Do you remember not having e-mail? Some of you perhaps but not the youngsters.
Me? Oh yes I do remember getting my first work e-mail. I thought it was a cool new tech way of communication.
But…it made me lazy.
Lazy?
Yes lazy.
You see the environment I was in was not huge nor global. You could get to anyone’s office in less than 5 minutes. (Heck in 5 minutes you’d could be out the door, in your car and at the first traffic light!)
But we had e-mail. Oh it was sooooo much “easier” to tap out a quick note and hit send than to walk a couple of minutes to another office. There was even talk that e-mail would save us time and we would be more “productive”.
Easier perhaps. But really all it did was put my butt in a chair for a longer period of time.
The time we “saved” actually equated to less.
Less movement equated to stiffer joints, less calories burned, less our muscles were used and less for our bodies to adapt to.
Less did not equal more…except more problems.
Fast-forward. In many situations people write e-mails just to have a trail of communication. So what should you do now?
Simple solution.
Write the e-mail…but do not send it…yet.
Make sure you personally visit the person you are emailing. Have your conversation. Go back to your desk and edit your e-mail to say: “per our conversation”.
Now you’ve networked. You’ve gotten out of your seat. You’ve moved your body, burned some calories and stimulated your muscles.
As with any change it may be difficult to do it at first. Keep it up. It will get easier. And you will get all the benefits!
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