Is email taking over your life ? If you answer yes to one or more of the following, then maybe it is:
Do you feel a compulsive need to check your email whenever you're near a computer ?
Do you plan your vacation around locations that can provide internet connections ?
Do you sit and wait for email to arrive and if none arrives, send one to yourself ?
For those who answered yes, don't despair. Help is at hand.
Marsha Egan, an executive coach from Pennsylvania, has designed a ‘12-step program for email addicts’.
Step 1, of course, is recognizing that you have a problem. Other steps include establishing a time table for checking emails and keeping the inbox empty.
Egan is also planning on holding ‘e-mailers anonymous’ monthly teleconferences....
Friday, February 23, 2007
12-Step Program for Email Addicts...
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4 comments:
I'm an email addict ... my level of anxiety correlates directly to the amount of unopened or unresolved email sitting in my inbox! Good post, Kiwi.
Hi Easton, seems to be a program for everything these days....guess that's because everyone's addicted to something...(smile)...thanks for stopping by...and good luck with your (?) addiction...
I am totally addicted to email: http://savetheassistants.com/?p=87
Hi Susan, hope your addictions not causing you too much grief (smile!) - thanks for the link - interesting site...it will end up on my RSS feed as well. I think I'm addicted to my RSS feed -wonder if there's a 12 step program for that. Cheers, Liz
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