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Creating your digital-free zone

Creating your digital-free zone

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Creating your digital-free zone

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- Technology is a powerful tool. It helps us get more done, it helps us communicate faster, it gives us a world of options right at our fingertips. But is it too powerful? Occasionally, it's so seductive and alluring that we just have to constantly be looking at our phones and our devices. This is why I recommend that we occasionally create a sanctuary from these digital devices. Now, if you think about what a sanctuary is in real life, it's a special place set aside to protect something, such as nature or animals. Well, you want to have your sanctuary, a place where you can go to protect your mind and your emotions and your thoughts so that you can be calm, and then go back to work and use technology later. Let's talk about a few ways that we can make this happen. First of all, you can create a schedule of when you're not going to touch technology, such as a day of the week or the month, or an hour in the day. I…

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