How to read the 6am email in four minutes
It is not a newspaper. It is a work list, and it is meant to be skimmed in the truck.
Four minutes. That is the whole ask, and if it takes longer you are reading it wrong.
The email puts the jobs closing this week at the top. That is not decoration — those are the ones that cost you money if they slip past, so they get read first, every morning, whether you are bidding this week or not.
The four minute pass
- Closing this week (two minutes). Anything there you can do? Anything there you already priced? Decide now, not Thursday: price it, watch it, or no.
- What is new (one minute). Run your eye down the buyer names and the titles. You are not reading the scope yet. You are looking for your kind of work.
- Open the two or three that matter (one minute). Every line in the email links to the agency's own notice. Open it there. The email is the pointer, the notice is the truth.
- Write it down. One line per job: buyer, what it is, closing date. A note app, a clipboard, the back of an envelope — anything you will actually look at again.
What to skip on purpose
Jobs you cannot do. Buyers you will never win with. That envelope nobody has opened in four years. Skimming past those is the skill — if you try to read every line you will quit the habit inside a week, and then you will miss the one that mattered.
Four minutes a morning beats an hour on Friday. That is the whole method.
The email is the easy part: every public notice we can place inside your radius, in one message, every weekday at 6am, closing dates first.
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