Okay I will admit I'm normally attached to my cell phone. I use it all day every day. In my defense I'm using it for business and constantly emailing clients, looking things up, etc.
I recently spent two weeks in a location that doesn't get any cell phone reception. I thought I was going to go out of my mind. Especially since I recently got an i Phone and I'm still crushing on it.
On the first day I turned it off and put it in a drawer for safe keeping.
I never looked back.
Although I was still working on many of the days I was out there, I did so from my computer. I also didn't sit there attached all day every day. I would go about my daily routine, running, eating, walking the dog, and then check in throughout the day.
What did I find? Just what you'd think: I was happier, healthier and way more productive. NOT being tied to my phone allowed me to feel free and independent from my work and company. Although I love both of these things dearly, I sometimes feel like me and the company are one in the same. In a way they are, but thinking that way doesn't allow me to ever have time off.
And so, I'm making the commitment to myself to put down my phone when I get home. Yes, I will still carry it and of course I will use it to pay at Starbucks and yes I will buy movie tickets on it and do all of the other ridiculous things people with iPhones do. However, I will not allow it to be my ball and chain.
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