It's time to really think about email-from the inside out. Email is defined as follows:

"... messages distributed by electronic means from one computer user to one or more recipients via a network."

- via Apple's native dictionary application

Let's break that down in a bit. But what I found pretty disturbing from the get-go is the sample sentence offered with the definition:

"Reading email has become the first task of the morning."

Ugh. Not exactly the most productive way to start the morning. But I digress.

Email is an abbreviation of "electronic mail", which brings us back to the term "mail", which is:

"... letters and packages conveyed by the postal system."

- via Apple's native dictionary application

All of this may seem rather obvious to many of you. But let me ask you: Have you ever stood by the front door waiting for the mail to arrive? You may have on occasion, waiting for a particular package or letter to arrive. But have you done so every day, checking every so often to see if the mail has arrived? Probably not.

So why do so many of us do that when it comes to email?