#1 - You have to make taking a break from it, 1 day a week a priority. “There’s power in the pause. Setting down the god of technology and living unplugged often, brings back the beauty of life.” Taking a break from technology regularly gives your mind and body a chance to recover and rejuvenate itself. It helps to fight stress and gives you an opportunity to sit back, relax, and have the chance to watch a beautiful sunset, take a … [Read more...]
Sleep is a key ingredient to a healthy lifestyle: it affects your energy levels, your weight, your attitude, your mental functions, and even how your body functions. When you get enough consistent sleep, you are a healthier and happier person. If you’re one of the Americans who say they’re not getting enough sleep at night, your technology habits may be to blame. Technology use right before bedtime is harmful to your sleep says the … [Read more...]
Are you the type of person that wakes up and heads right for your smartphone, tablet device or laptop to check email and social networking updates? or are you the other type of person that comes home from a long day at work and the first thing you reach for is the TV remote? Either way, it doesn't matter, I am proposing you break these habits and here's why. Immediately connecting yourself to technology in the morning or right before you go … [Read more...]
Do you want a healthy technology lifestyle? Sure you do. We all do. So the question is, what habits do we avoid to keep it healthy? Can you guess? There actually could be a laundry list of them depending on your addictive nature to it, but for me there were 3 key ones that led to the downfall of technology overwhelming my life and I believe that if you avoid these 3 minimally, you will be headed in a healthy direction. Ready? Here we go: #1 on … [Read more...]
Life is very habit-forming, isn't it. Some habits we form are ones we wish we would have never developed and others we are grateful for that we did. Regardless though of what habits we have developed, the combination of these habits have developed us into the people we are today. While bad habits can almost miraculously get set in stone overnight because they are so easy to fall into, developing great habits take more commitment, deliberation … [Read more...]
