Take an Online Sabbatical in 3 Easy Steps!
The other day, I was visiting Facebook pages of friends and colleagues with whom I hadn’t communicated lately … posting lots of “shout outs, hellos, and take cares.” One colleague replied to my post a few days later commenting that she’d been AWOL online for awhile. I was quick to quip back that maybe I too needed an “online sabbatical”. Then it hit me: I DO need an online sabbatical every now and then. In fact, it’s likely we ALL need a break from online. Spending too much of your valuable time online can be extremely stressful.
Do you ever feel like you are spiraling out of control in an insane matrix of information overload? Are you caught in the never ceasing stream of teleseminars, webinars, e-zines, and sales letters flooding our lives. Are you inundated with ‘tweeple’ who can show you how to get 16,000 followers in the next twelve minutes? Or, better yet, what about those people who are following 2500 people and have 1500 people following them, yet they’ve never ever posted one single tweet? Are you wishing Facebook had never created the “Event Invitation” or the “How Well Do You Know Me” application?
Yes? Join the crowd! It’s time for an Online Sabbatical, my friend. But how in the world could you possibly do that without getting even more behind than you currently are?
It’s as easy as 1 – 2 – 3:
1. Announce to your friends and followers that you are taking a break and will be missing in action for a few days. That way, your fellow online addicts won’t freak out wondering where you are.
2. Resist the temptation to log on to your Facebook and Twitter accounts for a few days.
3. Scan the volumes of e-zines cluttering your inbox and delete those that will not enrich your mind, body, spirit, or business. Then, delete those that are of no interest to you at this point in time. If there are some that you are truly interested in, take this time of sabbatical to read, enjoy, and learn from these. While many of them have great content, you should keep only those that you really, really want to read!
Implement these three simple steps and you’re on your way to your Online Sabbatical. Enjoy!
Be well –
Chad Simpson
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