Make Time to Unplug

Take a pause and UNPLUG. It's good for you to take time away from social media, the internet, and all that sort of stuff.

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Welcome to the me myself and you podcast.

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My name is Sara and I'm your host and I'm glad to have you here again today.

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I hope you're doing okay.

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I am always glad to have you here listening and I appreciate each and every one of you so very much.

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All of that being said I want to remind you today to make time to unplug.

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I feel like in the pandemic it is been like insane.

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Difficult to unplug because that's how you're connecting with people outside of your household outside of quarantining is

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through social media and through electronics and all of that.

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It's made it so much more difficult and I literally cannot remember the last time I tried to unplug at all.

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I have no idea when the last time was that I actually took some time off of social media and all of the things and that's

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definitely hard with my job being social media.

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I touch it every single day that I'm at work and then I often touch it on the weekends for my blog and podcast getting off

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social media can be so refreshing.

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It's such a good way to reset and reconnect with yourself and reconnect with yourself without all this background noise of what

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everybody else wants you to be thinking about or concerned about or whatever.

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I'd without all the ads in your face and everybody's highlight reels.

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That phrase but it's true.

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It's important and it's such a good reset when it comes to taking time off social media and making time to unplug.

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I think it's important to set boundaries from the beginning decide.

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What unplugging means to you.

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Does that mean no electronics outside of like phone calls?

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Does that mean no social media?

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No internet or does that mean no Netflix?

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What does that mean to you?

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What does unplugging really mean to to you that's important to decide upfront set those rules for yourself.

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The last time that I did like a real like social media cleanse.

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I think we're I really just like intentionally took a few days off.

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I did have my phone and I did watch like Netflix and stuff, but I pretty much stayed completely off of my computer just because

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I felt like that was the easiest way for me not to Be all roped into things.

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I don't know if that makes sense.

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It kind of helped set that boundary and permit me from accidentally digging into work stuff.

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I didn't do social media at all, but I did do Netflix, but I also set up some projects for myself to do in advance so that I had

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something to do to start with so I did this painting and I posted pictures of it on my Instagram before because it was such a

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big thing for me.

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It was something that represented doing something for me.

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If that makes sense.

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It was something that my husband actually pushed me to do because I was just not in a good spot and I needed to take the time

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off and it's just such a positive representation of that time for me.

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So anyway, maybe your projects aren't painting.

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Maybe it's decluttering something or drawing or maybe it's organizing your Or it's cooking or going out side and Hiking whatever

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it might be maybe set up some projects ahead of time.

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Just so that you have something that you can focus on while you take that time off because I don't know if we realize how much

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we rely on social media for numbing our minds when we need something to do.

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I think it's also important to prep to take time off so that you're not stressed about it for me that looked like scheduling out

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some posts that looked like like wrapping up work stuff when I was freelancing so that I wasn't available for a few days and I

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think I set my out of office probably that looked like finishing school assignments because I believe that was during the school

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year if I remember correctly.

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So I probably would have tried to finish all my assignments for the week ahead of time.

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I'm not sure that might have been during spring break or something regardless.

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I really prepared myself to unplug.

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And it's so important.

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I think when you're unplugging to be intentional about it to be able to get the best benefits.

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All of that being said my point is make time to unplug.

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I think that's important, especially in this current time period to just take some time to rest and recharge and unplug.

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If you liked this episode subscribe follow leave a review share it with a friend all that good stuff.

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It really does help me out.

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I think that's it.

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So I will talk to you again.