After a business lunch with Sheryl Sitts, Founder of Journey of Possibilities we thought this video talking about Cell phone use, technology and conversation would be great topic to share. Enjoy!

Mario Rosales

Tech Life Balance - Online Strategist

A friend and I were talking about technology this week and we discussed technology.  What a surprise right?  

As our conversation continued, one of the things that came up is what expectations we have from technology.  It was obvious that we expect a lot from technology.  As we dove deeper about how it is a great tool to help us, it gives us instant information and provides great communication there was one thing that we were missing.

Technology is great; it gives our world a way to ease burdens for many things.   Yes it is wonderful but we are getting lost.  Our own independence of our own thoughts is slowly going away.  We are beginning to rely on the information being on the Internet.  Think about it.  How many times did you have a question and instead of thinking or figuring it out, you actually go to Google to get the answer?  Sure you can do it for some things, but are you doing it for everything?  Do you ever have an answer that does not require Google?  How many times have you looked at a question and wanted to find the answer on the Internet?

We have come to expect technology to have all the answers.  The Internet in particular has given us a place where people drop their thoughts into a blog like this, a website like Wikipedia and various other “libraries” of data dumps.  You hear it all the time, “it’s probably already been done,” but is it not beautiful when you create it and you put your own “twist” to it.  Our lives cannot be only about looking up information, we have to be creative and create something.  The moment we stop creating is the moment we stop being individuals.  We have it in us to be something, to create something.  We have to allow it to come through and do not rely on Technology to give it to us.  Let’s not be attached to technology.  Let’s not expect technology to be our creative side.  The great expectations we have about technology are after all created by humans.  So let’s stop expecting more from technology and let go and expect more from our own self.

How attached are you?  Be Free!

This is Mario, your Tech Zen

Disconnecting

We continue to explore our Series “Preparing to Detach from Technology”.

In Part 1 we talked about “Full Attachment” and Part 2 covered “Hybrid Attachment (semi-connected)” in this part we will discuss:

Hybrid Detachment (semi-disconnected) – You are using technology to update your social circles for fun but not to work.

While most people think that they are in this state and but they are not fully in this state.  Is it confusing yet? 

Example:  How many times have you looked at your Facebook account and after looking at it you looked at your business email?  How many times did you look at your Twitter account and then started reading news about your industry?  How many times do you get on the computer and say, “Hey since I am here…”

While this is a state that we think we are in, most of us are not aware of it and shift between Hybrid attachment and Hybrid detachment.

It’s easy to know if you are flipping between the two because you will realize that you are checking your business email, checking the latest news on your industry or wanting to get that last document finished for your job.  It’s so easy to do that and even when you are aware of it you think to yourself, Oh I am here already let me go ahead and just finish.

Some people will say “well I have to keep up with my business” especially entrepreneurs like myself and others but if you are keeping up with your industry, when are you relaxing?  If you are keeping up with the Clients, do you not deserve a break also?  Yes sometimes we stress because it could be money that we are worried about.  It might be that we want to be distracted from life, but those distractions are what cause the issues.  Are you really relaxing while responding to emails about a project?  Are you really relaxing when you are working on that document for work?  Think about it?

When you are on vacation, go on vacation.  Hybrid detachment is great but you must make an effort to get to the point where you are detached from business and technology.  Technology is different from business.  Technology is the tool to get you what you need to do your business and also gives you another avenue to play.  Do not let your work get into your personal life because then your personal life becomes the business.

This is Mario, Your Tech Zen, Disconnecting.