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Dear Blackberry User – cure your addiction now

Dear Blackberry users – isn’t it time to assess your email addiction?  Email addiction is a major cause of email overload.  Are you feeling stressed out by the lack of your instant quick fix of emails?  Feeling you can no longer function properly and worse still do business (as some people are reporting).  This is all nonsense.

This Blackberry outage should be a wake-up call for us all to reassess just how addicted we have become to email, because we can all survive without constant instant access to our email  24x7x365.  We would probably be significantly more productive.  We just like to think its macho and makes us look important to be attached by the Blackberry (or iphone) umbilical cord to our email.

The lack of constant interruptions from the Blackberry buzz could have many positive effects such as reigniting our strategic thinking and improving meetings as people stop multi-tasking.  We could start to review some processes which have developed through our email addiction rather than as a result of thinking through what is best for the business.

To check just how addicted you and your business have become use our Email Addiction benchmarking tool.  Click here to download it.  For a ten point plan to cure it see January 31st – Email addiction ways to cure it   and   February 2nd – Email addiction – more tips and hints.

Whatever you do, just make sure you seize the moment to re-evaluate your life-work balance and how you can actually be more productive by freeing yourself from the the Blackberry umbilical cord.

Tags: email addiction, email overload

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