7 Rules for Communicating Clearly and Concisely in Email « Web Worker Daily

As email is the prevalent form of communication for many web workers, it’s gotten a lot of attention: how to handle your email, how to empty your inbox, email etiquette, and more.

But perhaps not enough time is spent learning about how to communicate with email. And more specifically, how to communicate clearly and concisely, two crucial aspects of communication that are often overlooked.

How many times have you received a rambling and incoherent email? How many times have you hit “Delete” because you have no idea what the person wants and no time to sort through the long message?

The truth is that people don’t have time for long emails, and they don’t have time to try to find out exactly what you want. You have to tell them, in as short an email as possible.

Misunderstandings are also a problem, because of the nature of email. People are often ambiguous, and their messages are interpreted differently than they intended, leading to a waste of time and energy.

Communicate clearly and concisely with the following rules

Getting lost can lead to big discoveries- Simple Truths

Getting lost can lead to big discoveries- Simple Truths: The Blog of Inspiration

Today is Columbus Day. We all know the story. Columbus was trying to find an alternate route to India. Instead he got credit for one of the biggest discoveries ever (even if he wasn’t the first one to find it).

Going off into the unknown and getting lost takes you out of the box. The best way to come up with new ideas, and get out of a rut is to take yourself out of your normal context. Get up and walk around. Experience something new. You won’t put things in perspective until you can view what’s happening from a third-party’s point of view.

Forget what’s easy, what’s routine, what’s comfortable. The road to change, the road to success even, doesn’t always go in one direction. It’s twisty, and steep, and you may fall down along the way, but it’s better to have a hard time on the road to success, than to have an easy journey down to road to mediocrity.

Take a risk today, and get lost. You never know if you might find what you were looking for all along.

Infectious Leadership

Michael Watkins

Michael Watkins

Infectious Leadership – Harvard Business Online’s Michael Watkins

“For good or ill, the senior leadership of every organization is infectious. By this I mean that leaders’ behaviors tend to be transmitted to their direct reports, who pass them on to the next level, and so on down through their organizations. Over time, they permeate the organization from top to bottom, influencing activity at all levels. Eventually they become embodied in the organizational culture, influencing the types of people who get promoted and hired into the organization, creating a self-reinforcing feedback loop — either positive or negative.”

Mr. Watkins makes some excellent points on how ‘infections’ a leader’s behavior is on others. And it’s not just at the top levels that this is true. For good or bad, each of us affects (or ‘infects’) the people around us. This also means that we are affected (infected) by the people around us.

Based on this, we not only need to BE the type of person that positively impacts others, but also need to work on SURROUNDING ourselves with those types of people.

Sleep: Reboot Your Brain with a Caffeine Nap – Lifehacker


Scientists say that a successful midday nap depends on two things: timing and (no kidding) caffeine consumption. Experiments performed at Loughborough University in the UK showed that the sleep-deprived need only a cup of coffee and 15 minutes of shut-eye to feel amazingly refreshed.

Seriously, this combines COFFEE and a NAP! How much closer to perfect can you get? ;-)

Read how on Lifehacker…