Through the years, I have heard countless colleagues and clients complain about the amount of time they spend on administrative work.  They have jobs to do that often require strategic, specialized thinking and work, but they feel held back from actually tackling that work due to their email inboxes and other busy bureaucratic tasks.  Unless you purposely restrain administrative work, it will often expand to highjack every minute of every day.  So introducing constraints into your work day is a way to wrestle back your time.

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