How did you do on your challenge?
Our first “turn-it-off” challenge commenced this past Friday at 6pm. You were challenged with taking 24 hours to yourself and not check email, check your Blackberry, check voicemail, or anything else associated with your business.
To be honest with you, my results came out pretty poor. I got caught checking my iPhone 4 times (my wife was keeping me honest), I HAD to make an emergency website fix which took up about 30 minutes, and I took a phone call once. This was all between the hours of 6pm and 8pm on Friday.
Once I realized how far gone I was, I turned my iPhone off. I spent the whole day Saturday just relaxing and having a couple beers with my friends and my wife. Overall, I’d consider Saturday a success! Friday, on the other hand, well, let’s pretend it didn’t happen.
So, let’s hear it. How did YOU do?
horribly… took more than 10 calls and easily responded to 5 emails… what has my life come to?
I certainly put the effort in to NOT working (kind of an ironic statement). I’d say I did pretty well actually. I did have a minor construction related emergency but, how do you avoid those????
Elliot,
Im not sure if you CAN avoid those. I guess this is the crux of the problem (I call it a problem but in reality, it’s our living). We are dedicated to our clients and customers so when something like a construction emergency arises, we have to act. We wouldn’t stay in business too long otherwise.
However, where we can make some adjustments is starting new work that is non-critical, or looking for busy work that can always wait until Monday.
Am I the only one that successfully completed this challenge?? Well, I’ll have you all know I had a nice relaxing weekend because of it.
Jenn