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Email Addiction. Are we becoming email junkies? Did you log in on Christmas Day? Judging by the results some of us are real email junkies with a severe case of email addiction. My thanks to all 722 people who participated in the poll.
Forty five percent (45%) confessed to checking their email. Men checked more often than women see below. However, more women checked their email once and both sexes were equal when it came to checking twice. Does anyone have any thoughts on this one?
Reason for checking in ranged from ‘self-confessed email junkie’ to feeling one must always be available. Of those who did not log in, most said it was time to be with the family and they were too busy cooking and entertaining.
The results leave me wondering just how much we have come to let email dominate our lives and how many people suffer with acute email addiction.
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Are you an email junkie? Email addiction is a costly to you and your business (even you love life). We become distracted from the task in hand. It drives up stress levels. In can also be the underlying source of chronic email overload and poor email etiquette as your respond in haste to new emails.
Are you an email junkie? Check -download our Email Addiction self-assessment tool.
Here are three more tips to help you on the road to being less of an email junkie and freeing up some time for other tasks which might have a more positive impact on your productivity and health.
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Last week’s UK launch of Clean Out Your Inbox Week seems to have been a great success. I am still sorting through all the emails, tweets and other messages. So please bear with me and a summary will be available at the end of the week.
The launch of our new Email Addiction self-assessment tool seemed to hit a hot spot. One of the problems with this sort of addiction is that there are no drugs to treat the affliction. It all has to be driven by personal behavioural change and from within yourself. As Susan Maushart’s book The Winter of Out Disconnect shows you might also find another you and another hidden skills set.
Here are five ways to start gently curing the curse of this modern day drain on productivity.
More tips and hints on Twitter this week.
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One of the major contributors to email overload is our propensity to email addiction (and social networking in general). Whenever I am with friends who have children (and friends) who are predominantly from Generation Y and younger the cry is why can’t they detach themselves from their mobile communications devices (eg iphone, Blackberry etc). Some say that even over family meals their siblings are still checking their phones and it drives them mad.
My own research (see for example Inbox-Outbox 2007 survey and Why are we so bad at switching off), and that of others suggest that we do indeed suffer from a bad case of email addiction. The more emails you send and the quicker you respond, the more you receive? How can we reduce email addiction? Here are three tips.
I will re-visit overcoming email addiction as it is such a prolific problem. Meanwhile, for more immediate tips take a look at ‘Brilliant Email‘.
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Results to date reveal that over 60% of us could not resist the temptation! If you have not yet responded, please do. Meanwhile, my thanks to everyone who has taken the poll, and especially for all those fascinating comments. Poll will remain open for another two weeks, then I will compile the responses. For those who have reducing their email addiction in their new year’s resolutions – more in Thursday’s blog.
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