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May18
10 Excuses For Compulsive Email Checkers

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Many people feel an urgent need to check emails right here right now. Here are 10 excuses to help them (us!) do just that.

Feel free to add more of your own in the comment thread. :) 

I have to answer this email now because it could be... 
1. urgent
2. from... (insert boss, colleague x, favorite customer etc)
3. an order
4. the answer I've been waiting on
5. personal email

PLUS
I can't keep this person waiting because he/she is
6.   too important to my business
7.   expecting me to reply straight away
8.   will think I'm inefficient/rude if I don't respond now
9.   may not be in if I leave it till later

and drum roll for the big one...
10.   I just want to clear this email and move on

If this sounds like you, and you're a compulsive email checker, you're not alone. Share your true confession at Emailaholics Anonymous

  • What excuses can you add to the list?


 

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If you're looking for some advice on how to better manage your inbox (and who doesn't need a little help there), check out these 7 inbox management tips from the Email Experience Council:

http://www.emailexperience.org/resources/inbox-management-tips/

Thanks for the link, Chad. I'll refer our readers to it in a future post.

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nice! puts a wry grin on my face...

1) I might miss a sale by not answering a potential customer's question quickly enough.

2) I might receive a negative FB on my eBay store by not resolving an issue fast enough.

3) I might have won the Irish Lottery - AGAIN!! LOL

I am an email checking addict. I much prefer email to the phone nowadays.

How about:

If I reply to this very sexy person with a really witty answer before our date, I might get lucky? Another date? Something along those lines...

for all of us who are single,
Sherri

That little window that pops up in the bottom corner of the screen to tell you that you have a new email is a real trap Yvonne. Once I see that I just have to go and check the mail.

Hi Chad, Calvin, Suzanne, Sherri & Karen
I enjoyed your responses... a few more excuses to add to our list. :)

Thanks

I'd add "maybe I'll miss my ...big break, important info, last chance, whatever (LOL)"


I often tend to go to the opposite extreme and avoid my email! It's too distracting to get the new email notifications.

Compulsive email is I think a very good way for us to procrastinate from what we should do. A withdrawal from what we like to do. That's why many people got this problem.

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