Smart working!
12 October 2020
Interview with RDS – The Organization
20 December 2020As of March 2020, we are always too connected. Our lifestyles have undergone a major shakeup that has directed us even more than before to the digital world. The two-month lockdown and smart working mode have pushed us, for some more consciously, for others less so, to be more and more connected, for work or pleasure. We have undergone a further acceleration from which there may be no turning back.
Social media attendance tripled, the online dating boom broke out, everyone from the youngest to the oldest experienced a video call. We watched even more stories, videos of all kinds (sometimes without being sure of the sources), read and created posts, FB and Instagram directs, Webinars of all kinds, and started new WhatsApp groups ... in an almost compulsive mode.
Always, TOO connected!
Being too connected does not help; it generates physical and mental fatigue, to the detriment of our attention span, lowering our concentration level and giving rise to stress and frustration. Emotions tell the tale.
But how to cope with this overwhelming change that has transformed our daily lives, how to run for cover? Awareness always remains the first tool to use!
You remain the captain of your own ship; you decide how to use the digital world without getting engulfed.
Some valuable little suggestions follow:
- When you wake up, don't pick up your cell phone until you have finished your breakfast; give your mind time to wake up without being bombarded with all kinds of information. The trick is to wake up with an alarm clock other than your cell phone.
- You don't have to follow everything and everyone, make a selection! Few but good. Whether it's a Blog, Instagram page, Facebook or webinar, focus on the sources that you feel are important to you without getting lost in the magnum sea of info that steals your valuable time.
- Give yourself times to consult email and social, if you do, you will gain time, focus, and mental health!
- One more word on WhatsApp in my opinion one of the most insidious because many people mistakenly use it for work ... which becomes an unconscious alibi for consulting it often and often. From time to time do Digital Space Clearing: delete disused groups to avoid being unnecessarily disturbed and also you lighten the memory of your phone.
- In the evening in the family at a certain time all the phones locked in a drawer! It's back to talking, to looking into each other's eyes to playing a group game, in short, it's back to healthy sociability.
- At the end of the day, check how many hours you spent on your cell phone-you might be shocked!
The less connected you are, the more remarried your mind will be, leaving important space for creativity!
