5 Revelations From Going Without Electronics for a Week
No phone, no computer. It was a revelation…
I usually take a week off work at the halfway point of each year. Being a project manager I find that if I don’t, I lose my edge and the rest of the year becomes an intolerable trudge. Last year I was on the brink of burnout by the time July rolled around, so we escaped to a sleepy little coastal town to get away.
For the first time ever, I didn’t want to look at a phone or computer screen. No checking emails, no keeping an eye on things, nothing. I needed to rid myself of all of it. So I did.
Here are a few realisations I had from unplugging just for a week…
1. We don’t even realise how tired we are
On the ride down I fell asleep in the car for an hour. The first night there, I slept nine…and then had an hour-long nap in the afternoon. A similar pattern occurred for the next 3 days, where I slept an hour longer than I normally would and backed it up with a nap at some point in the day.
I actually felt tired most of the time those first few days, even first thing each morning after those amazing nights of sleep. Doing a quick Google search I’m clearly not alone, as researchers have noted this is a widespread occurrence for…
