Wait overnight before replying

**first a note..historically I have posted “Writing I Love” posts on Tuesdays, and “Movies with Meaning” posts on Wednesdays. Effective this week, I’m iterating a change. My writing and movie posts will continue, simply on weekends, leaving Monday to Friday for evolving in my usual eclectic way my themes and posts around #OpenLeadership

What if you waited at least overnight to reply to all your emails and messages ?

What Tom ? Are you crazy ? I can’t do that !

Really ? Yes…

Prominent uses of messaging apps (Whatsapp etc) only came in the last 5 years. Emails only came into regular use less than 25 years ago. Before that, we had faxes for about 15 years, and before that, we had (gasp) “snail mail”. We even used to use the phone rather than texting people to communicate. Really, we did, I promise you.

I started my working career in 1986. We hand wrote letters on yellow ruled paper and sent the drafts in vacuum tubes to the “typing pool”, then when they came back up we signed them and they went to the mail room. Faxes were occasional, so phone calls were frequent both internally and externally. Changed days, and not all change is postive progress.

Our world is moving so, so fast, and all too often I feel we sacrifice quality for quantity, speed for thoughtfulness. The results ? All too often more does not mean better, sometimes “less is more”.