In this episode of "A Changed Mind", our host, David Bayer, shares his transformative experience of a four-day technology detox. He reveals the profound impact of disconnecting from digital devices, highlighting the addictive nature of constant connectivity and its effects on mental clarity and presence.

David describes his journey from initial discomfort to renewed joy and awareness, emphasizing the importance of regular digital breaks for personal growth and well-being. He explores how technology addiction affects focus, relationships, and overall life quality, offering insights on setting healthy boundaries with devices.

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What We Explored This Episode

10:09 Realizing disconnection from present reality

13:43 Second day: Glimpses of peace and calm

18:46 Meaningful interactions without digital distractions

22:49 Day three: Spiritual awakening and idea flow

26:53 Importance of digital detoxes and setting boundaries

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"I quit technology for just four days. No phone, no computer. I realized that I had been operating and thinking way too fast. It was like someone turned the lights back on."

"We've all become captured by these technologies and devices. It's like we had these cobwebs that were slowly being spun around us."

"Our real power isn't in technology. Our real power is in the pause. Our real power is in our relationships with ourselves, with others, and with spirit."

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I quit technology for just four days. No phone, no computer. I realized that I had just been operating and thinking way too fast. Honestly, it had been going on for a while. Swiping, poking, tapping, listening to things at two times speed. I just knew that something wasn't right. So for four days, I disconnected from everything. I didn't realize how damaging technology was. It happens so slowly, but it just keeps building and building over time. I'd be in my car and notice. I'd just grab my phone at a stoplight. I'd be in a conversation with my wife and in the middle of her talking, I'd just grab my phone and look at the time. I've overcome alcohol addiction, drug addiction, sex addiction, but this was way more addictive. And after just four days, it was like someone turned the lights back on. If I'd known this sooner, I would have done it years ago. It has literally changed the way I'm looking and experiencing life. Life, literally everything. Welcome to A Changed Mind. A journey into the topics that matter to you most. From the neuroscience and spirituality of mindset and personal growth. To groundbreaking strategies for health, wealth and relationships. To open and honest conversations about pressing global issues such as the environment, censorship, corporate capture, and democracy. Each and every episode reminds us of the certainty of the goodness of the future and provides the teachings, tools, and timeless wisdom inspiring you to create real, lasting change in your life and in the world. If you've been desiring. A sanctuary for your spirit. A place to go to tune out the distraction, negativity, and doom and gloom so that you can tap into the deep power, the vibrancy, and the potential you have inside. You're in the right place. Welcome to A Changed Mind.

Hey, it's David. Welcome to A Changed Mind. A sanctuary for your spirit. A place where each and every episode, I remind you of the certainty of the goodness of the future. I am your friend, your host, your guide, David Bayer. Wherever. Last week, I did something that has had an unexpected and profound impact on so many areas of my life. I quit technology for just four days. Yes, four days and four days only. I know that may not seem like a long time. It's just 96 hours. But in those 96 hours, I gained more insights about myself and my behavior than I've probably gained over the last 12 months. And I identified what I think is the number one reason why most people today are feeling like life is moving too fast. It's out of control. It's why they're stressed out, why they're not present, why they're not healthy, why they're not richer, both in terms of their bank account and their experience of life. And it started with my wife telling me that I needed to take a break. So I've got my big event coming up in about a month. That's usually a really stressful time for me. We've got over a thousand people coming to participate in three days of transformation. So generally, I think I've got to watch all my tapes, do all my preparation, really kind of cram everything I can into a short period of time. I literally start counting the days backwards, about six months until my event. And then that results in a lot of stress, a lot of overwhelm. And it was getting to a point where I started noticing that I wasn't thinking clearly. I had, like a buzzing or a brain fog going on. I was being reactive, both in my relationship with my wife and with my family and also on some of my team meetings. My wife was like, hey, like, you seem like you're stressed. You seem like you're irritable. What's going on? And despite the fact that I had really pushed aside the idea for a long, long time because she'd recommended it several times, she said, look, why don't you take a break? The usual response I have is like, how am I gonna take a break in the midst this preparation? But she said, look, if you want to show up at your best during the event and before the event and actually enjoy the experience of this thing that you love putting on, you've got to take a break. And so I made a decision to take four days off. And part of that decision was to also completely disconnect not only from work, but also from technology. And she and I had a conversation where she said, look, I just. I think that if you don't give your mind an opportunity to think about things related to work and you don't stimulate your mind with the videos that you're watching on YouTube or checking your stats, so your metrics or the ticket sales or receiving emails from the team, it's going to create an opportunity for your mind to just settle down. And being in the work that I'm in, she's 100% right. All of these external stimulus trigger thinking. That's what the mind does. It thinks. And that's why some people, like a good friend of mine, both two friends of mine, actually, both Matt Stafford and Dr. Anthony Balduzzi, spent seven days in the darkness, which terrifies the hell out of me. Seven days in complete darkness, complete sensory deprivation. They even for five of those days, because as you withdraw stimuli from the mind, the mind has no choice but to actually start to slow down. And in that slowing down, there's a couple of things that emerge. One is new ideas and new thoughts. Two is a calm and a peace and a stillness. But so often we get caught up in life and we feel like, hey, we just don't have the bandwidth, or now is not the right time to take the disconnection. And what ends up happening is it's never the right time. And so what I've seen in my own life and what I see in the lives of so many other entrepreneurs and just human beings in general, especially with 24,7 access to social media, and not just social media, but the speed at which things are occurring. It's like we used to look at long form content and we still do, but now you've got Instagram shorts and YouTube shorts, or Instagram Reels and YouTube shorts. It's like these 10 to 30 second micro doses of engagement. And that's all information that goes into your neurology and that stimulates and speeds up your system. And so I knew that I needed a break. And so despite the fact that there was a big part of me that was like, this is absolutely the worst time, I knew it was the best time. It sort of reminded me of when Gandhi said, supposedly I have so much to do today, I must meditate for two hours instead of one. It's like, I have a lot to do over the next month and so I've got to be at my best self. And so I started the clock on a Thursday morning. I woke up and there was no checking my phone, there was no checking my emails. In fact, Carol and I have the business together. She wouldn't even bring up work topics with me. She sent an email to the team that said, hey, David's focusing on preparing for the event, which was true by not doing anything. So please send all communication through me. Carol and I just noticed right from the get go what a habit I had been in. Every single morning I wake up, got the podcast, obviously on the audio platforms and on YouTube. I love seeing the comments of people getting so much out of the episodes. I like looking at the statistics because it's a bit of a gamification. How well did the last episode perform according to the YouTube algorithm? I check right now ticket sales for my event. And so I just noticed that like, wow, I was in this really automatic habit of wanting to grab my phone and check this information, checking My stats, checking social media. And of course I didn't because I committed to the four days of technologic detox. And so what I actually did instead was I went and I did some morning breath work. And when I do my morning breath work, it's a Wim HOF style breathwork where I do some deep breathing, I do three rounds of it, and then I do a deep hold. And I like to time my hold. Of course I time my hold on my phone. And so there I am in my living room completing my third round and doing my breath hold. And literally my left hand reaches down towards my left thigh where my phone would normally be sitting next to me to grab my phone to time my breath hold. But there's no phone there. And if you're watching on YouTube right now, I'm gonna show you some videos real quick of what's happening now to young people. And when I say young people, by the way, I mean children who are being given access to their phones, who are learning how to swipe and tap and poke, and who have become not just emotionally and psychologically addicted, but neurophysiologically addicted to their phones. And if you're listening on the audio platforms, you can't see. But what I'm showing you right now is actually a child who's sleeping, who's still swiping and tapping. And so we've all seen what happens. I have a two and a half year old now, he doesn't have access to screens, but I pay attention to it when I'm out at restaurants. And we can see what happens when you try to yank a device away from a child. There's a tantrum. And it's the same type of tantrum that we begin to have emotionally, psychologically and neurophysiologically when we deprive ourselves of these addictions. And so my first 24 hours was a very, very difficult 24 hours. I literally did not know how to use my time. I kept having the urge to go back, checking the things that I check on a regular basis, whether it was my email, whether it was my statistics. I noticed, for example, thoughts that would come to mind around, like, oh, I haven't talked to my mom in about a week, I need to call my mom. And I'd go to grab my phone to call my mom. And what I realized was, no, these were all just the quiet whispers of the technology addiction. Literally my mind was coming up with reasons for me to use my phone so that I could get that dopamine hit and that micro relief or release of having my attention pulled towards something that, I don't know, fills some need and feels good. And so I had the whole day ahead of me. And it reminded me of when I first got into drug and alcohol and sex addiction recovery, where it's like, oh my God, I don't even really know what to do. And it's funny to me because so often I think we're working hard in our businesses or we're working hard in our careers with the idea that there's some payoff is that we're sitting by the pool, maybe sipping your favorite alcoholic or non alcoholic beverage, depending upon your preference, we're listening some music, we're going for a walk in nature. But when we actually have the space to do these things, we become so entrained and so conditioned into our normal everyday lives that it's very, very difficult to disconnect. You know, I live in my dream home in Puerto Rico. I live on three acres up in the jungle. I put in a lap pool that I can swim in, an in ground jacuzzi, an in ground cold plunge. I have a full commercial gym at my home. And I don't know what to do when I give myself just the first 24 hours of digital detox. And so this was a real awakening and awareness for me. I also started to how my mind is just constantly going. And I don't know if you've experienced this, but it's like I'm not really living from my body. I'm living in this space that's I guess somewhere in my head or above my head. I noticed that as I was kind of walking around my home we have three levels and the bottom level comes out to the ground floor, which is outdoors.

And I'm walking down the stone steps and I realize like I'm not present to walking down the stone steps. I'm not present to the fact that I'm now on the bottom floor of my home where the pool is out in front of me and there's a grassy green hill over to the left and the beginnings of the jungle around the outskirts of the property. I'm not seeing any of it. I'm up in my head thinking the same thoughts that I've been thinking over and over and over again. Because I've become so addicted to the psychological and mental process that the digital devices just stimulate. Emails come through and I think about them. There's someone reaching out for a partnership opportunity and I start contemplating and crafting how that opportunity might work. Someone Makes a mistake and does something that maybe shouldn't be done or is done incorrectly, and I start arguing with them in my head or questioning why this problem is still occurring, and it's going on and on and on that there's a reality that is taking place in my mind that has nothing to do with the actual reality that I'm living in. And it's draining my energy. So this was the first 24 hours. It was almost like being in a horror movie, to be honest. It may sound like an exaggeration, but when I started to get present to the incessant, circular, argumentative, fear based conversation that was taking place in my head, that I actually used things like social media or a video on YouTube to try to check out from, it was horrifying to see. Especially being in this work. It's like, I know this stuff. I know how to, quote, unquote, control my mind. I've done, you know, over a decade's worth of personal growth work and healing work and spiritual development work. And I'm like, oh my God, like, look at how this tape is running. And the tape is intimately connected to the digital devices that we are using because the information is coming through via email, the information is coming through via social media, and it is fast and it hits hard. And it is designed in a way to engage you over and over and over again. And when you disconnect from it, it calls you back to it. It reminds me of the story the Odyssey, which was in Roman theology. And it was the story of Odysseus, this hero. It was either Greek or Roman. He was this hero. And he and his, the most powerful group of men at that time were on a ship and there are these women called sirens. Who are these beautiful women that live in the ocean? It was the sound of the siren was so alluring that it would draw the men to jump into the water and drown. And so Odysseus had to tie himself to the mast of his ship in order to be able to refuse the sirens call. And the challenge today is it's not just when we're boating and it's not just in the ocean, but the sirens call is in your pocket, the sirens call is within your devices, it is your laptop, and it's everywhere. And so the first 24 hours were really challenging. It just felt like I could not get my mind to slow down. I could not stop thinking. And it wasn't just that I couldn't stop thinking, because stopping thinking isn't really a thing, just like stopping breathing isn't a thing and stopping the beating of your heart isn't a thing. That's what the brain does. It thinks and it's going to always think. But I realized how uncontrolled my thoughts were and how focused they were on things that didn't feel good. Looping and looping and looping and looping and looping. I had a situation with somebody who I do business with where they wrote an email back to me that didn't feel particularly good and I didn't agree with what they were saying. I literally had an argument in my head with them probably a hundred times that I noticed in that first 24 hours of digital detox. And that's actually happening all the time. It's just that since I was in a digital detox, I noticed it. The second 24 hours was a little bit different. I started having these glimpses of peace and calm. There were these moments where I didn't feel the mental tension. I wasn't feeling drained. And by the way, before I started this process and here I am only just barely 24 hours in, I didn't even realize how drained I was. I didn't even realize how stressed I was because I wasn't tuned into the conversation that was taking place in my mind. So as I got into my second day, I started having these moments of like true relaxation. I started having these small moments of joy. My wife was in a certification that day and there was daycare for my 2 year old. So they were gone. And my wife said, look, like, why don't you go to an AA meeting, you know, spend some time with the guys that you from recovery. So I drove down into San Juan, I hit the 7:30am meeting, ended up grabbing breakfast with some of those guys, then spontaneously decided that I'd do a book study with one of my favorite guys from my 12 step recovery. We're reading a book called Sermon on the Mount by Emmett Fox. And so we read the first chapter together and then he needed to go do something else. And so I decided I was going to go take a walk on the beach. So I take the five minute drive over to the coast of Puerto Rico and I'm walking on the beach and I realize like I'm arguing again with that same person I was arguing with the day before. I'm starting to think about my YouTube stats again. I'm starting to have the same worries about preparation for my event while I'm in the midst of paradise. Have you ever taken a vacation where like you finally get to Your vacation. But you've brought your problems and your work with you. It takes, like, three to five days just to get into your vacation. That's because of this addiction. It's because of the tethers that our digital devices and all the information that's coming through our digital devices, the tethers that it has, the cords that it has attached to us. So, like, I'm walking in paradise. The water is absolutely beautiful. There are people having fun and playing on the beach. I'm looking at the palm trees and the beautiful hotels, and I'm like, I can only experience about 10% of this right now because every time I relaxed for a moment, my mind went back to those same patterns of thinking. Literally pulling me out of my body, up into this mental space that is not even a reality, and disconnecting me from the paradise within which I live. But on the second day, I started to have some glimpses of joy, some moments of presence, the opportunity to actually make some decisions that, you know, I think about it, I'm like.

Like, gosh, people look at my life and they're like, I'm sure a lot of people are like, I want what? David has got a successful company. He's helping people. He's speaking on stages. He's married to the woman of his dreams. He's got a beautiful family. He's got a two and a half year old. He's living in paradise. And my life is good. My life is absolutely amazing. But it's almost as if I'm experiencing my life in black and white versus full color. And I started to see that color seat back in. I decided to go have lunch by myself. I'm like, wow. Like, I'm doing things that I think healthy people do. And I thought I was a healthy person. Like, I'm doing things that a normal person would do. And I thought I was a normal person. But you know what I realized? Like, I cannot have lunch by myself because I always have my phone with me. So I would normally sit down and I'd be scrolling through my phone and looking at emails or watching some video on YouTube. And this is what is. So we say in addiction, that addiction is cunning, baffling, and powerful. This is what's so cunning, baffling, and powerful about it. I might call a friend and think that I'm connecting. I'll have an idea, like, I need to call my mom, or I should call Anthony, or I should call Garrett, or I should. But that's all just a deceptive allure that is created by my addiction to my device, I might decide I'm going to listen to Abraham Hicks or something productive on YouTube or listen to some inspiration or motivation. And don't get me wrong, there's a right time to listen to inspirational motivation. There's a right time to call your mom or call a friend, but it has become compulsive. And so, for the first time in as long as I can remember, I literally had lunch by myself. I was sitting there present to the female server who came over. I had a wonderful conversation with her because I wasn't trying to get back to my phone as quickly as possible, or I wasn't staring at my phone while I was ordering. Have you ever ordered something or had a conversation with someone where, like, you don't even get up from the phone and you're still talking to them and this has just become like a thing that we do. It becomes acceptable in a sense. Like, she probably wouldn't have minded so much if I was still texting or looking at my phone while I was ordering my food, because we've all become captured by these technology and devices. But so I have a conversation with her. It was a wonderful conversation. She was such a joyful young Puerto Rican woman. This was one of my favorite restaurants. They'd opened up a second location inside this what looked like a hotel. And I said, oh, is this a hotel? She said, oh, it's more like an Airbnb and it's really cool. You can do self check in and they have the big rooms upstairs and you get a full service kitchen. I was like, wow, it looks really nice. And so now I'm present to it. I'm like, oh, this could be cool. Like, when my friends come and visit to Puerto Rico, the hotels are quite expensive and they're like, just, okay. It's a unique thing about the island. It's like really expensive hotels that aren't that fantastic. I'm like, oh, this could be a really cool place. So it's like, now I'm accessing new ideas, I'm present to life as it's showing up. I'm creating an expansion in my life versus this contraction down into this myopic focus on this screen that is in front of me. Me. And this is what rich living is. I'm like, oh, my gosh. Like, oh, this could be a really cool place. Say, hey, how long has the restaurant been open? She's like, well, we opened up about 11 months ago. I go, this is one of my favorite restaurants. I love it. I normally Go to the one that's on the other side of the city. And so she and I start having this wonderful conversation and then this beautiful Indian couple sit down next to me and they've got a two year old daughter, she's the cutest thing and she's trying to get my attention. Had I been with my device, I would have been busy with my device. I probably wouldn't. I've done a little goo Goo Gaga with their daughter. That was it. The little girl and I had a 10 minute conversation while I was eating lunch. It was such a wonderful time. We were mirroring each other and she was making sounds and I was making sounds and I asked her her name and she told me her name and I said, how old are you? And she was like goo, which her dad told me meant two. She's almost two years old. Then I had a nice conversation with them. They were from Jersey, they were just down for the weekend and they're like, oh, where are you visiting from? And I said, I live here, I live in paradise. You wouldn't know it by how much time I spend on my damn device, but I live in paradise and just had a nice connection with them. I was able to like wish them safe travels. Tell the little girl it was so nice meeting her, she's like bye. I'm like, bye. Like such a wonderful time. Really enjoyed my meal. I was present to it rather than just eating it as opposed to tasting it, you know what I mean? So this was just my second day. I got to have a lunch date with a two year old, met a beautiful young Puerto Rican woman who was my server, who was such a delight to be with, engaged with this incredible beautiful Indian family, took a walk on the beach, which I rarely do even though I live here. Started a book, book study with my friend Paco after going to a 12 step meeting. I'm telling you, like this fulfilled me More in the second 48 hours of my digital detox than probably what I've experienced over the last month was incredible. What happened in the next 48 hours, the third day of my digital detox was even more extraordinary. I just started feeling mostly Joy. I'd say 80 to 90% of the conversation in my head subsided. And by the way, this is not like me meditating. This is not me like finding some shaman and doing ayahuasca. This is not me finding a therapist and eating a handful of mushrooms. This is just me not being on my phone, not being on my computer, not talking about work, removing the stimuli that's keeping me in a very small life, no matter what it looks like from the outside looking in, just setting it aside. Now I'm on day three and I'm starting to feel 80 to 90% less of the looping conversation and 80 to 90% more joy. It was like somebody turned the lights on. It was crazy. I noticed that my vision has been deteriorating. I kid you not, my vision was back to almost normal by day three. I was driving to Starbucks because that's my happy place to go get a coffee in the afternoon. And I was like, holy shit. Like I can read street signs like 40 meters ahead of me. I can see license plates and read them four cars in front of me. I didn't have any of that for probably the last 18 months. For the last 18 months I've been saying, I need a break, I need a break, I need a break, I need a break, I need a break, I need a break. And what's I think challenging about it is that these are amazing things in my life, like running events. It's like in my one year program over the last year we did an event and four Seasons in Vail, Colorado. It was amazing.

We did an event at one of my favorite hotels where Carol and I got married in Antigua, Guatemala. I took my a group of 50 of my coaching clients to Argentina. So it's like all these things are amazing, but I also need a break. I need the pause, by the way, while I was doing all these things, guess what I had with me? My friend technology constantly feeding me information. It literally reminds me of the one ring that bound them all from the Lord of the Rings, the Ring of Sauron. It's like you put that ring on and you think you have access to all this power and all this information, but it corrupts you. That's exactly what I was feeling not knowing it. I was just getting darker and darker and darker. It was like I had these cobwebs that were slowly being spun around me. And I'm not exaggerating at all. By day three, I started to feel all that start to fade. And I watched as ideas started to flood my mind. Some of them were related to work or my mission and what I'm creating in the world. But what was interesting is like rather than trying to solve the problems of my business, which is what the thinking does, the solutions just started coming to me. While I was enjoying my life, while I'm having conversations with two year olds and walking on the beach and driving to my Starbucks, not driving to my Starbucks to Get. Get my cold brew with a splash of oat milk, because I'm using it to check out of this increasing pressure created by these digital devices and all the information that come through them. But because I just wanted a beautiful drive by myself. Gabriel was napping. Carol was taking a nap with him. I drove the 22 minutes down the mountain from which I live to Starbucks, and all of a sudden, like, it was like, all these ideas started coming to me, and I actually had to be cautious because sometimes I was like, oh, I wonder what ChatGPT would say about this. Oh, that's a really cool idea. Here's a question I have. Let me go to GOOG, Google or YouTube and see if I can get an answer. And I had to be like, no, don't put the ring on. Just stay in this space. Like, literally by day three, I was having a spiritual awakening. It was unbelievable. I can only imagine what my friends experience when they're in Seven Days of Darkness. I'm just not picking up my phone, talking about work or getting on my computer. And all of a sudden, like, ideas and solutions started flowing to me, but in an effortless way. And that's why it was a spiritual awakening. I started feeling connected to myself, connected to God, connected to other people just by not touching my phone or computer. And then Sunday was my last of the 24 hours, and it was more the same. Except what I started noticing, because I was so present to what was going on, was that as it started to turn into Sunday evening, I started becoming afraid of Monday. I didn't want to go back to my phone. I didn't want to go back to my email. I didn't want to go back to my computer or really work, to be honest. But I realized, like, well, but this isn't the way. The way is to take these breaks so I have these greater awareness so I can set some boundaries in place so that I can use technology for what it's meant to be used for, and so that I can be in my work as a method by which I'm fulfilling on my mission in the world. Because I love it. But I needed to start building some new habits. This is probably news to women who listen to this show. It's not news to men. But, like, we, as men, we literally, our digestive system doesn't function properly. Like, when we're trying to have a bowel movement unless we're reading something. That's why men have, like, the little magazine thing in their bathroom. Or, like, if we're at a guest house and there's nothing there. We'll literally like grab a soap bottle or shampoo bottle and look at the ingredients on the back. I'm convinced there's something anatomically connecting our capacity to read to our capacity to do number two. But I would always be looking at my phone when I'm on the toilet, and now I'm not. I've set some new parameters in place. I'm not looking at my phone when I'm on the toilet. I'm not looking at my phone when I'm having a conversation with another person. I set a new parameter in place when I'm done with my workday, around 6:00 in the evening. No phone. I'm putting it on focus mode. And what's really cool, at least with the iPhone, you can set it on a personal mode where it's like, if Carol needs to call me or my mom needs to call me, they can still get through, but everybody else, it starts to accumulate in a queue. And you check the queue in the morning. And this is actually really, really important for focus. In a world where we're getting all these pings and notifications, where you get a notification that someone commented on your Instagram post or your Facebook post or your TikTok or you. What else in terms of notifications, text messages, WhatsApp. It's constantly breaking our focus. And high performance tells us that, like, it takes about 15 minutes to even get into flow around something. And so if you're constantly being interrupted, not just when you're working, but in your life, then you can't intentionally focus your energy towards what you want to create. Creating more money, creating beautiful vision for your life, creating a successful business, creating a better relationship that requires focus. Napoleon Hill talked about this. He talked about the ability to control your mind and to direct it in the direction of a burning desire. All of these micro interruptions create friction along the way and we can't build any momentum. It's interesting because we put parameters around other things in our life that are detrimental. Hopefully. We put parameters around drinking, we put parameters around food, we put parameters around drugging, we put parameters around sexing. But we don't put any parameters on our tech. And we really should, because our real power isn't in technology. Our real power is in the pause. Our real power is in our relationships with ourselves, with others, and with spirit. However you define that with God, with a higher power. And so this was a phenomenal exercise for me. And I'm just curious if you're following along on YouTube. How much time do you think you spend engaged with your digital device on a daily basis? Like you can comment on it here in the comments and then you can actually go and check out your screen time and see where you're truly at. And my encouragement is to do detox. Three days, four days. Four days for me was great. I'm looking forward to the next one. I mean, obviously I've got some things that I need to do as we roll into our event, but being able to do it over the course of a weekend is really easy. And tacking on a Thursday, Friday, take a four day digital detox weekend to yourself and then come back and let me know what you experienced. I mean, maybe you experienced things even more profound or different than I did, but I have to tell you that this was a game changer for me. So simple. I'm really, really excited actually to do this for seven days. That's going to be my next detox after I get through my event and really disconnect and to start building this into my regular schedule. Because I think the technology is fantastic, think that I love doing my work, but if I really want to be able to achieve my full potential and I want to be able to do it through a journey of joy and being present for all the beautiful things that are in my life, then I have to build into my routine a break from information and technology. It's absolutely essential. So anyway, that's what I think. Let me know what you think in the comments below. We're on this journey together and I'm just sharing with you something that has had a profound impact for me over the last week. So I hope you enjoyed this episode as much as I enjoyed sharing it with you. If you're listening on the audio platforms and you haven't yet, do me a favor like leave me a rating or review. I love reading the reviews, especially on Apple. Apple love getting the ratings on Spotify. Makes me happy. And subscribe if you haven't. If you're following along on YouTube, do me a favor. Comment. Like I said, let me know what your experience has been, what you think, how much time are you spending with your digital friends and is it serving you? And if you haven't yet subscribed and hit that bell icon. 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