I’ve been pretty bad with replying to people in the past.<\/p>\n
Especially when correspondence builds up before I go on a trip (a time when I’m usually very busy) and I have a bunch of people to get back to after I return (when I’m usually still busy). Actually, I’ve still got a list of people to get back to from before my last trip…<\/p>\n
A week or so ago I decided that: not having someone get back to you promptly is pretty irritating; I hate it when people do that to me; and accordingly I really shouldn’t do it to other people.<\/p>\n
So I decided that I would respond to people immediately.<\/em><\/p>\n Phone calls, text messages, emails, invitations – whatever it was, I would respond (not “try to respond”) straight away. It’s been working out very well. I feel more productive, like things are moving faster, and I assume that people appreciate it. Daily life feels that little bit more purposeful too.<\/p>\n I’ve found that the responses don’t need to be perfect, they just need to be prompt. Anything important will be followed up again anyway and you’ll have shared a bit more information. If you need to sleep on something, just send a quick message saying that you will follow-up later (and maybe asking some questions).<\/p>\n I guess it’s all just another way of saying that you shouldn’t put off for later, something that you can easily just do right now. It’s not a new or ground-breaking idea, but it is worth doing. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve been pretty bad with replying to people in the past. Especially when correspondence builds up before I go on a trip (a time when I’m usually very busy) and I have a bunch of people to get back to after I return (when I’m usually still busy). Actually, I’ve still got a list of … Continue reading “Immediate response”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paLsRH-1dD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4689"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4689"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4710,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4689\/revisions\/4710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}