Email Addictions

Is email a problem for you. Do you send to many? Do you receive to many? Are you addicted? Well, good news if you are. There's now a 12 step program to help you overcome your addiction.

However, as good as some of these ideas are, some of them simply won't work for people in certain fields. Some businesses survive on communicating through email and a few of these steps just are realistic if you like your job and want to keep it. On the other hand, if you lose a client because you are too focused on email, the program may be exactly what you need.

Here's what I don't understand. It's number 10 on the list: "Reduce the amount of email you receive." Great, but how do you that? There may be a few people who you would have to put on your blocked sender list or ignore all together because they send so many emails. Yet most of their emails are probably important.

What did we do before email and cell phones?