Email Free May
I have hopes that it will become a large trend, like Dry January, but I fear it will just be me. I have to use my work email, of course, but I have almost no personal email coming to my work email. So my plan is to stay off my personal email altogether for the month of May. For me, it is a matter of breaking compulsive habits that do not lend themselves to improving my life in any way. When I am working, I tend to glance at my email on the web browser, more often than I want to admit here. It's an endless round of work email, the New York Times website, the Atlantic website, personal email, and then back to see if any more work email has come in. My family either writes actual letters to me or calls the house, so most of the personal email simply is not personal. There are two categories of messages in my email that particularly bother me: 1. Services I use that just assume it is acceptable to email me reminders and information. Our veterinarian, for exampl...
.jpg)