Don't worry, there's a cure for your email obsession and that involves shutting down that email notifier and establishing regular times to review your new email.
Marsha Egan has written some simple ides on CNN to cure your e-mail addiction. Here are some favorite picks:
» Deal immediately with any e-mail that can be handled in two minutes or less but create a file for mails that will take longer.
» Turn off automatic send/receive. Let go of your need to check e-mail every ten minutes.
» Commit to keeping your inbox empty.
» Set a target date to empty your in box. Don't spend more than an hour at a time doing it.
CNN.com [The 12 steps to cure e-mail addiction] Picture from Flickr
Update: Aparna Ray writes an interesting Newsmerick - "You've got mail? We've got a cure!"
Dear folks, this is fact and not fiction
There’s help at hand for your affliction
This 12-step cure
Promises for sure
To help you dump E-mail addiction!
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Reader Comments
:) i am a chronic email addict... i hv set the time to check email in Outlook as 1 min. Ditto for Gmail in the nice tiny lil extension for fx.
And i don't intend to take cure either. :)
Written on 21/2/07 8:04 PM
The only way I've found my obsession with email to be controlled is to actually close my email program throughout the day. I usually just respond to email three times a day - first thing in the morning, and twice during the afternoon. Then I close my emai client.
Written on 21/2/07 11:17 PM
I am wondering how:
"Commit to keeping your inbox empty"
will keep ya from checking your email so often...I think that this quote alone encourages one to check their email frequently :P And yes...I too am an email addict :)
Written on 23/2/07 12:18 AM