Is Technology Taking Over Your Life? Try Starting the New Year Differently

In an era of constant availability and endless notifications, it's easy to lose control over how technology affects our lives. I invite you to join me in an experiment - a 5-day digital detox at the start of 2025. Let's see together if it's possible to live and work in IT while maintaining a healthy balance between online and offline worlds.

I love technology. It enables me to do fascinating things, learn and grow, all while sitting on my couch with my computer or phone. Unfortunately, there’s also a dark side to technology. It can take over one’s life and instead of being a tool, become handcuffs. I certainly don’t want my phone to be my boss, telling me what to do at any given moment through notifications.

Feel the same way?

  • Do you constantly check notifications, even when you’re with family?
  • Do you find it hard to focus on one task for more than 15 minutes?
  • Does your brain feel constantly overloaded with information?

If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, I have something that might help you.

Introducing: “New Year’s Technology Detox Plan”

This isn’t another guide telling you to “put down your phone and go for a run.” I’m not going to give you any advice or tips, but instead, I’m planning to do a technology detox myself and invite you to join me. What will come of it? I don’t know, let’s find out!

What I want to achieve:

  1. Start the new year with a bang
  2. Find new ways for a balanced approach to technology
  3. Improve the quality of my free time and rest
  4. Increase productivity through better recovery

My plan for the first week of 2025

From January 1st to 5th, I’ll conduct an experiment with a different approach to technology. For 5 days, I’ll test various methods of digital detox and share my experiences with you daily.

Here’s what I’m planning:

  • One email daily describing my struggles and discoveries
  • Honest reflections - both pros and cons
  • Inspiration for your own digital detox experiments
  • After a week and then after a month, a summary of what improved, what works, and what doesn’t

Join the experiment!

Want to start 2025 with a new approach to technology? Let’s do it together:

  1. Sign up for the newsletter below if you haven’t already
  2. Starting January 1st, you’ll receive emails about technology detox
  3. Together we’ll test if it’s possible to live and work in harmony with technology

This isn’t a theoretical guide - it’s a real experiment you can participate in. We start January 1st, 2025. Will you join?

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