David:

Sounds like you had a great vacation with your family. :) I have been reminded this week by many that "charging your battery" is key to achieving Attention Management.

Congrats on getting closer to your goal of "unplugging" while on vacation....... small steps ......I have been reminded by Tony that it's a journey and small steps are key to achieving this.  Love that you socialized this with your environment to reach out to you via text if it was urgent.

#hereistoachievingnewmemoriesandditchingyourcellphone

Best,

Mary Beth

-----Original Message-----
From: barton@stagen.simplelists.com [mailto:barton@stagen.simplelists.com] On Behalf Of David Rouls
Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2019 11:22 AM
To: barton@stagen.simplelists.com
Subject: Digital Distractions

Hey all. Just wrapping up vacation down here in Florida. So no drama triangles. No tough prioritizing and so on.

Downside is I promised myself that I wouldn’t check work email from Tuesday when we left. I even told my team if it was urgent they should text me since I wouldn’t be on email. Failed. Didn’t work on my laptop but it’s so easy to check email while you’re waiting for a table at a restaurant or whatever.  I responded to very few emails. And it maybe totaled an hour of email time but still I didn’t just “check out” like I promised myself.

We are taking a family vacation this summer where I know cell coverage is bad. So that will help but I need to get to a point where I’m self governing and don’t need poor cell coverage to help me fully check out.

On the one hand I think, we’ll it wasn’t THAT bad. And on the other hand I think, how ridiculous you can’t just allow yourself to be on vacation 100% of the time.

On the positive side we made a ton of great memories including a massive haul of fishing for 1/2 a day which we ate for two days and dolphin watching and jet skiing.

Hope you all had a great week.