Plan vacations by the hour and get back onto the driver’s seat…

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If you are like me, you sometimes wonder who is the boss of you. The boss of your own mind.

 

Yes, who is the boss. Email or Facebook, or customers or the company we work for, or even the little gadgets we have in our pockets (or more likely out of pockets!)…………….

 

About time we make technology work for us, not against us. Not sabotaging our energy and doing things that matter to us, on purpose and intentionally. Very often, we are following the default mode of being led by what pops up in front of us, or what keeps us from doing the hard work….

 

Our brain was not designed to function like this. And that’s why this constant bombardment of our mind by technology is now taking a toll on our deep engagements with things that matter, our physical wellbeing as well as our peace of mind.

 

It’s more important than ever to plan vacations everyday, throughout the day.

 

Here goes vacation planning:

 

6 am – 1 pm:    Facebook vacation

9-11am, 12-3pm, 4-7pm: email vacation

9am-7pm: Youtube vation

……………………………..

 

And the list goes on.

 

I am curious, does putting the vacation times on our daily calendar and sticking to it like a real monk help us to gradually get back onto the driver’s seat of our own mind?