Strategies for reducing "email-checking anxiety"

[packhorse]

Hey everyone,

I posted this on the Vacation Schemes group but this strategy has honestly massively decreased the frequency I check my emails! I thought the community could share insights into how to do this too! What strategies do you use??

My strategy is:

Every time you think about checking your email draw a little email logo (like the Gmail one- or this one: ) on a piece of paper. I try to do mine on lined paper.

It is a really good way to actively do something instead and often the impulse is gone after drawing something. It also makes you realise the number of times you have thought about your emails!

It might also be a good way of keeping honest/accountable for "giving in" to impulses (which don't help!)

 

[Dheepa]

Hey!

Have you checked out this thread? It's some members of the forum helping to keep each other in check on the excessive email checking. https://www.thecorporatelawacademy....-emails-applications-anonymous-6pm-club.3258/

I actually deleted the email app off my phone during the app process. That way whenever I was away from my laptop, ie when I was eating, watching something on TV, walking home etc, I wouldn't obsesses over checking because I literally couldn't (too much of a hassle to log in using a browser on the phone) It's a bit of a drastic measure but it works!

 

[Jaysen]

Hey everyone,

I posted this on the Vacation Schemes group but this strategy has honestly massively decreased the frequency I check my emails! I thought the community could share insights into how to do this too! What strategies do you use??

My strategy is:

Every time you think about checking your email draw a little email logo (like the Gmail one- or this one: ) on a piece of paper. I try to do mine on lined paper.

It is a really good way to actively do something instead and often the impulse is gone after drawing something. It also makes you realise the number of times you have thought about your emails!

It might also be a good way of keeping honest/accountable for "giving in" to impulses (which don't help!)

I often find myself unwittingly checking my email, so this is a great way of giving more pause! I'm on week two without email/social media notifications on my phone and so far it has made a world of difference.