Do you sleep with your smartphone? Are you on 24/7? Do you think that your success depends on your non-stop connection to work?
Harvard Business School professor Leslie Perlow has a better way.
In her latest book, Sleeping with Your Smartphone: How to Break the 24/7 Habit and Change the Way You Work, Perlow shows how to disconnect and become more productive in the process. She provides techniques for devoting more time to your personal life while simultaneously accomplishing more at work.
I pretty routinely now take a regular internet sabbath – usually either Friday or Saturday, sometimes both, where I am off email and the blogs.
It’s not always possible to do this. But I am vastly more productive and more emotionally and spiritually fulfilled since I’ve made that a regular habit. Long hours at the computer for a few years (some of it unavoidable for work) took a very heavy toll on me.
How did we ever manage with just land lines? Actually just turn the things off.