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By: Valerie

Valerie — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:32:14 +0000

Well, I think for some of us there’s a more serious problem of real addiction, where you simply cannot stop. Like when you quit smoking and you’re grubbing around in the trash for cigarette ends to smoke. I know I have an addictive personality, and nearly 20 years ago I found ways of quitting both smoking and alcohol that worked for me, but of course the key there is total abstinence.
But with process addictions like email checking, how can you have total abstinence when email etc is an essential tool?
Maybe the word addiction has been watered down and is becoming more synonymous with obsessive or compulsive behaviour, but I’m using it in the hard-core sense where tips and tricks and time management techniques etc just don’t work because it’s the primitive brain that’s running the behaviour. The pleasure, anticipacion and reward circuits have got wired into a self-perpetuating feedback loop. Many people today are hooked on email and other online activities, but for those people who have hard-core addictive tendencies… what do we do?

By: Rebekah

Rebekah — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 02:57:54 +0000

Great Article…especially the tips on Detox Days and Journaling. I highly recommend both! The Journal feature in Outlook is a great tool for figuring out where all your time is spent…but most people don’t even know it’s there or how to use it.

I also recommend getting off as many lists as you can stomache. If the world catches fire…trust me..you’ll hear it somewhere else first! If it’s not ESSENTIAL reading…Detach, Delete, Unsubscribe!

By: ?AK?HE?

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By: dev

dev — Sat, 09 May 2009 17:18:17 +0000

My will be make a wallpaper that contain the advice that u think and learn from other and make it ur own desktop wallpaper. it make easy to notice cause we always in front of computer.

or write down the advice and turn in to sometime that scold yourself to motivate yourself like “if u waste 30 minutes a day in reading email even though u know it will not has email in the next minutes, u wasting 2100 min a week where this 2100 minute u can use to learn some other thing, idiot”

By: Shashi

Shashi — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:16:37 +0000

Today, My manager gave kind of warning to me on my emails. I continued lot of mails which weren’t supposed to continue. I was arguing with my boss, I am not getting reply’s for my emails from the team.
You know every 5-10 minutes my eyes will look for outlook on my machine. I didn’t realize until reading this article on my problem, instead I used to complain my team why you are not sending me emails(responses). There are some occasions like speaking to the team to understand why they didn’t send me replies.

Ohhh. God…. I have gone MAD…!!!

I started searching yesterday, on Emailing-tips. While googling (I have good searching abilities, lol ) I come across various articles, which gave lot of tips (Thanks everyone!). But this article clearly brings out on my negative character.
Thanks Tina…!!! You saved my life! :)

By: Brad Semp

Brad Semp — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 06:39:07 +0000

Great article on one of the most under-recognized productivity drains within today’s business world. Whether you work in the corporate world or are a solo entrepreneur….it simply doesn’t matter….

Our studies have shown that over 90% of people are wasting productive time each day due to e-mail and many of these same people are literally addicted to e-mail.

Our program relies heavily on the “outsourcing of your e-mail” as you mentioned in one of your points. We’ve proven over and over again that once you realize that you have a problem, there’s a relatively simple yet effective solution to managing your e-mail.

EXAMPLE: I’ve personally reduced my e-mail time from 2 hours & 25 minutes per day to UNDER 20 minutes each day using

By: Tom Stine | Spiritual Life Coach

Tom Stine | Spiritual Life Coach — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 20:39:02 +0000

Catching-up on the reading today, and I discovered this article in your feed. Great ideas! I’ve been using one method that really isn’t all that “useful” and that is hitting the delete key. A lot. I love email, too, because I love to communicate. But who has the time? I’ve also been unsubscribing to a lot of garbage I get.

By: Poems

Poems — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:18:03 +0000

I am glad that not alone in my e-mail addiction. Why we cannot live without constant checking e-mails. Probably your tips will help to reduce or get rid of this addiction!

By: komodo dragon

komodo dragon — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:48:01 +0000

indeed, there are several sufferers of this email crazed condition… i admit i all into the category, but all is well