No, not a break from this blog–although it sure seems like I have been taking one!
I’m on vacation this week and next. It’s the first long vacation I’ve taken in a very long, long time. I’m out West visiting my family and it has been incredibly relaxing.
And yet, yesterday was my first day without reading and responding to e-mail from work. And probably the only reason I didn’t do that yesterday is that I was not somewhere that I could get to my e-mail and during that day away I forgot to respond to something by a deadline and missed two other messages that were borderline time sensitive.
At what point do we really let ourselves get away? How do we train ourselves to let go of the e-mail connection? When do we turn off our cell phones and just let people know that we’re unavailable?
Because I think everyone should get away from it at some point.
And so I’m going to answer this one last e-mail and then I’m out…for at least a day!
Sometimes I take the phone of the hook, shut down the computer and put a note on the door. But then, I make my own schedule most of the time anyway so it is a lot easier than if I had a “regular” job! But it certainly does feel good to get away from technologies when I do.
By: Leya on August 3, 2008
at 9:36 pm