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  • Maintaining A Balanced Life With Technology Is About Healthy Boundaries

    It’s been getting increasingly difficult to stay balanced due to technology; hasn’t it? Technology is supposed to serve us and increase our quality of life, but we’ve found ourselves working longer and harder just to keep up with its demands.

    Maintaining a balanced life with technology is about maintaining healthy boundaries.  A few ideas:

    * Read and respond to email only at the beginning, middle and end of each day.

    * Limit time on social networking sites to 15 – 30 minutes daily.

    * For every hour on your computer, take at least 30 minutes off of it.

    * Have at least one day a week where you unplug as much as possible – and maybe unplug completely – only engaging in telephonic contact.

    * Limit television time and expand interpersonal contact with friends and family.

    What are your best approaches for staying balanced in your relationship with technology?  How much of an issue is technology in having a balanced life?

  • Managing Distractions Enhances Personal Productivity

    Personal productivity is directly related to minimizing distractions. Technology has created potent means of distracting us . . . . thus, joining the infinite other ways that are available to diminish our productivity.

    Knowing yourself is key. Make a list of what have been your favorite distractions. Decide how much time, if any, you are going to give each of them – and then stick to it. Work to decrease distractions over time.

    EFFECTIVELY MANAGING DISTRACTIONS CAN DRAMATICALLY INCREASE YOUR RESULTS.

    What have been your favorites? Is it best for you to limit them or to eliminate them altogether? Can you replace distractions with more useful activities like stretching, walking or other forms of exercise?

    Getting out of our own way always improves our results. If you were really honest with yourself, how much difference would handling distractions make in your life?

    Copyright 2009. E. B. Hutt Bush and Coaching for Results, Inc.