How many things are on your "to do" list today? How many times/day do you check your email and social media accounts? Get control over your day again by choosing 3 things to do each day that "must get done" and then look at your list of 25 things. Check your email 3 times/day...bunch them up so you are not chasing emails all the time. And...consider taking a day, or a half day, retreat to slow down and rediscover your creativity. Listen to this Peak-Careers Interview … [Read more...]
Tech Free Retreat
Tech Free Retreat and The Benefits of Turning Off the Tsunami of Information What I love about taking my tech free retreat day each month is the ‘cognitive dissonance” it causes me. An out of my comfort zone kind of ‘cognitive dissonance’. I leave the house as close to 8:00 a.m. as possible and drive to a friend’s office who so graciously lets me use it for my tech-free retreat day. And then it hits me - WHAM! It’s different. Feels different. Looks different, smells different. It will be a … [Read more...]
Technology free retreat – What a great day!
On February 19 of this year, I turned off all my technology and took a “Rebalancing Retreat.” Thanks to the inspiration from my brother Mark who has taken retreats annually for years and to Richard Leider, a ‘purpose’ expert who suggests in his book, Repacking Your Bags, taking a ‘technology-free’ day and to use that day to j u s t t h i n k… My retreat was at a local liberal arts college in a remote room in the chapel tower. My view included the beautiful campus on top of Mayflower … [Read more...]