3 helpful tips to keep technology from ruining  vacation

Our technology helps us deliver great client service and access information quickly.  It can also be what stops us from escaping the grinding day to day of our professional lives while on vacation.  If not properly disconnected, our technology can rob us of the escape that a vacation provides to think, invest in our relationships at home and grow as a person.

In this episode I share 3 tips to unplug from technology while on vacation:

* Put the phone away
* Coaching yourself on your own non-importance
* Setting aside time to check-in

Additional resources:
Smartphone addiction could be changing your brain
Combat negative self talk with instructions

Transcript:
Welcome to the Jason Clause Show. I'm Jason Clause, your host, and today we're talking about vacation and smartphones.

Welcome, welcome, welcome everybody. My name's Jason Clause. I'm your host and this is the Jason Clause Show. My experience is that the best business leaders and managers out there, they're idea collectors. They're always on the lookout for great ways to take technology and use it to help their team. They're looking for good tactics and strategies to help their people perform better, learn better, get to where they need to be from where they are.

And that's what this show's about. It's about finding those ideas and sharing those ideas with a growing community of Bay Area business leaders. Got a great episode for you today. It's another short one and it's timely, because vacation's in the air and many of us are addicted to those smartphones and those phones can actually really create some real problems for us when we're trying to spend time with our family or our loved ones or our traveling companions and so I thought I'd just talk about it a little bit. I found a couple of great articles and we'll get into it right after this.

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All right. Welcome back. So like I said, we're talking about vacation today and specifically how can we make sure that we put those phones, those smartphones, where they belong so that we can spend our time enjoying our restful hard earned vacation with our family or our travel companions, maybe even just time by ourselves?

The reason I thought that this was an idea worth sharing, there's a ton of research out there talking about the way the brain works and how smartphones are ... they're just candy for that brain and there's a lot of suggestions that way more of us are probably addicted to those phones, like actually addicted to those phones than we then we want to give credit to. And so I found a great article on CNN. I'm gonna include it in the show notes.