E-mail Addicts can try Marsha Egan’s 12-step program to cure themselves
Alcoholics and drug abusers have one of their own, and so do video game addicts. Wondering what we are talking about? Yes, it’s the 12-step program that abusers of alcohol, drugs and other addictive actions have to go through to come out completely clean. Now, people who are excessively addicted to e-mail also have a 12-step program that has been designed to tackle their obsession.
An executive coach in Pennsylvania, Marsha Egan has conceptualized a plan to teach people how to manage the electronic tool that can be as much a waste of time as it is efficient, fast-paced and convenient.
Incidentally, the 12-step program for e-mail addicts has been designed to deal with cases such as the golfer who checked his BlackBerry after every shot, after which he lost a potential client who wanted nothing to do with his obsession. Thus, Marsha Egan’s 12-step plan tries to delve into the deeper lying issue that e-mail misuse could cost businesses millions of dollars in lost productivity.
According to Marsha Egan, “There is a crisis in corporate America, but a lot of CEOs do not know it. They haven’t figured out how expensive it really is.”
So how do the 12-steps to e-mail de-addiction go? Well, the first of Marsha Egan’s 12 steps in “to admit that e-mail is managing you. Let go of your need to check e-mail every ten minutes.”
Other steps include, “commit to keeping your inbox empty,” “establish regular times to review your e-mail” and “deal immediately with any e-mail that can be handled in two minutes or less but create a file for mails that will take longer.”
As of now, Marsha Egan does not host any 12-step meetings, but in the near future she plans to have a monthly teleconference for “e-mailers anonymous”.
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