How I beat overwhelm: I deleted my email app and my sleep suddenly improved
Briefly

As a freelance writer, the structure of my work day can often vary wildly...no matter the shape of my 9 to 5, one thing remains constant: emails.
I also accessed emails on my computer, but, for some reason, I would end up looking at the push notifications of my phone app twice as often.
The little red dot next to my Gmail app had become a marker of my professional persona: the higher the number of unread emails, the more I felt as if I wasn't doing a good job.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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