The Efficient Advisor: Tactical Business Advice for Financial Planners

347: How to Cut Your Email Time in Half (Without Ignoring Clients)


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Your inbox is either running your day… or you are. 📥⏳

In this episode, Libby tackles the silent productivity killer inside most advisory firms: email. If you’ve ever felt busy all day but unsure what you actually accomplished, this conversation will hit home. 

If you want more energy at the end of the day and less reactive chaos in your business, this episode is your permission slip to stop living in your email.

Here’s what you’ll learn:

  • Why your inbox is not a to-do list — and how fragmented attention is secretly stealing 2–3 hours a day
  • The difference between checking and processing email (and why blending them is the root of overwhelm)
  • The 4 D’s framework: delete, delegate, do, or defer — and how to move tasks out of your inbox for visual “inbox zero”
  • How templates can save you 40+ hours a year and dramatically reduce decision fatigue
  • Why the more emails you send, the more you receive — and how setting boundaries protects your time and client experience 📊✨


Libby also shares practical tactics like blocking email windows in your model week, removing work apps from your phone, using delayed send to train client expectations, and reducing unnecessary back-and-forth communication with your team. Because clean systems reduce mental load — and mental load is what keeps you feeling stuck in reactive mode.

You don’t scale your business by answering more emails — you scale it by reducing friction. 🚀 Your inbox doesn’t get to be the CEO. You do.

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