Category Archives: Balance
Addicted to Technology
Today’s guest article, written by long-time friend Peter Vajda, takes a close, careful look at the hair trigger we’ve all developed – a hair trigger that responds instantly, unquestioningly to all forms of electronic communication. You know what I’m talking about. You’re sitting with friends enjoying a leisurely dinner and your phone rings (chimes, plays, sings, announces, barks, or whatever your ringtone is), and you go, “Oh, excuse me. I have to take this … hello?”
Same with email coming in, facebook notifications and all the rest. It’s become an instant, kneejerk reaction.
Revving Yourself Back Up
You know how your thoughts can sometimes (or often) wander away from the direction you’d been intending to go. You’re familiar with that feeling, right? You walk into the kitchen, look around and can’t quite remember why you came in.
You get distracted by trivialities, and you end the day having done none of the things you so firmly intended that morning.
If We Get What We Focus on, Then …
Photo by Susan Minarik
Our world is awash in problems and while some of them are getting the attention they need, others are being ignored in favor of … contrived … issues. And this situation is irritating a growing number of people.
One of the steadiest people I know is long-time friend Susan Minarik. She runs the “Positive Living Now” blog where she focuses on what makes people happy and how we can put that information to use in practical, daily life.
