{"id":4584,"date":"2012-08-26T20:00:58","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T01:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/?p=4584"},"modified":"2012-08-26T19:52:27","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T00:52:27","slug":"unplugging-from-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/2012\/08\/26\/unplugging-from-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Unplugging from the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I know I can go 101 days without social media<\/a>. Giving up Twitter, Google+, and especially Facebook isn’t too tough for me. I can go without a telephone, too. (I’m also not much of a fan of text messages.) The one thing I always <\/em>check daily, though, is email.<\/p>\n

So…this past weekend, I unplugged it all.<\/p>\n

No social media, no smart phone, and no email. (I still used my computer for writing, of course.)<\/p>\n

A Cabin in the Woods<\/strong><\/h2>\n

I’ve mentioned before<\/a> that I admire Paul Lamb and his tiny cabin in the woods<\/a>. If I’m camping or hiking — or even just running around — I can disconnect without a problem. But once I get home, I check email.<\/p>\n

While I don’t have a cabin to retreat to for a weekend, I do<\/em> have something on my side: the ability to just say enough!<\/em><\/p>\n

We all have that: the ability to just turn it all off and lose ourselves in the things we don’t always get to when we’re connected so much.<\/p>\n

Here’s a video about my weekend disconnected from it all. There really is<\/em> something to claiming time as yours. I liked it enough that I might do it one weekend a month…maybe even try a week sometime down the line.<\/p>\n

I hope everybody had a great weekend.<\/p>\n

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