We are often overloaded with information in our e-mail inbox which is now takes most our time to go through. Before you realise it you are hooked onto checking your e-mails frequently. Like myself I spend more time on the Internet looking for solutions to different problems. Overtime I have subscribed to a number of newsletters and everyday I was getting loads of e-mails in my Inbox. Can you imagine how much time it takes to go through all those e-mails. Then there are personal e-mails and also junk mails to deal with.
Can you imagine going through a day without checking your e-mail. Sometimes you can be stressed, that you may miss something just by not having access to your e-mail.
I came across the following ways that can help you cure your e-mail addiction and reduce all stress caused by e-mail addiction:
Try not to mix personal e-mails and business mail – discourage your friends and family from sending things to your work e-mail account. This way you won’t have to keep checking your work e-mail account even in out of work hours just to see if one of your mates has send or replied your personal e-mails.
You are responsible for the volume you receive – if you are like me and you have subscribed to so many newsletters, you may have to go through your inbox and unsubscribe to some which waste your time. Sometimes you get junk mail, try not to get into the habit of reading all the junk mail. Myself I just delete most of spam mail.
You may choose to ignore your e-mail completely at certain times. This can help you concentrate more on other work you need to do. Stop replying to e-mails out of work hours. If people know they can get an answer from you at all times they start relying on that.
Find something else to read, maybe a book or you can subscribe to RSS feeds with more valuable information. You can also read a newspaper to kill time on your journeys, instead of ending up on your mobile e-mail.
Try also to set yourself time limits. This requires a lot of discipline, but you should try to limit the amount of time you spend dealing with emails.
It is important to try and balance your work and personal life.
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oh man everyday when I wake up I have many messages in my inbox! So many sometimes 40 – 60
but it’s the life I live and need to keep marketing blogengage so I deal with it 
I agree with you, myself I get a lot of mail in my efforts to get information on Internet Marketing, but I try as much as I can to mange my mail box.
It’s not easy though.
Today New Zimbabwe website has just filled my Inbox with junk mail.