This afternoon an alarm will sound on my phone at 5:00pm reading"disconnect and reconnect" from 5 to 8
And this alarm will sound every weekday.
One thing I know for sure is that we are all way too connected these days--technologically speaking that is. For Christmas I got the new (and loverly) iPhone 4 and a new iPad. My 11 year old got the new nook color (Very cool) and our nine year old, after waiting 10000000 years got a phone (now she can keep up with all her business clients, scheduled appointments and voice mails--oh wait she's nine.)
And yes these devices rock our faces off. But at some point like all good things we have to draw a perimeter around those things that just beg to be abused. And we need to use a bold black marker to draw the lines.
My bold black marker is my phone alarm. It will serve as a reminder that daily I need to stop and reconnect to my family. No phone. No computer. No iPad.
If your Plan BE for 2011 is to BE connected consider how important it will be for you to disconnect so you can reconnect.
Cheers to the new year and cheers to you.
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