A good wake up alarm - at this time of the year when you are likely to be in a reflective mood - particularly with respect to work-family balance. I guess like all fads, this too will pass - after a while you do realize that if you receive an email on Saturday evening at 7:00 pm, you don't have to reply it then - nothing's gonna happen till Monday morning anyway. You might as well ignore it and go on having quality time with your family. Then Monday morning when you get to work, fire up your Outlook and start replying.
To me it seems like a vicious cycle - someone sends you an email at an odd time - you are tempted to respond immediately - I don't know why - to show you're a busy person, you are always on, you're hip to mobile technology, you are always connected, you've go the latest tech gadgets, etc, - then you do the same with someone and so on and the cycle continues. I guess if enough people decided this new year's day to break this obsessive compulsive behavior, the cycle might break a little.
technorati tags: GTD, BlackBerry, OCD, Obsessive+Compulsive
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