How work and life balance to achieve

The conference room came roughly 20 people, they sat down around the table, habitually took out the phone, the IPad and other electronic devices. This is the final stage of the meeting and the process is simple. First of all, everyone at the meeting put forward a problem in their pursuit of balance between life and work. Then everyone has to propose a possible solution to the problem. In this way, after the meeting, we will be able to better understand the problems we face, as well as the corresponding tools to solve the problem.

They all belong to type A personality, enterprising and always keep ahead of the state. Most of them are company executives, or they lead a larger team. They are successful people from the standards of any modern success.

One after another, they describe the difficulties they have encountered: I want to manage the team effectively; I want to use time efficiently; I want to spend more time with my children ... Themes vary, but the difficulties are broadly similar. Each difficulty is placed on the table, seems to be within reach.

Basically, everyone is complaining about technology.

I have to avoid technology from time to time. I work with people all over the world, so as long as the Internet can see people can collaborate online; my mailbox was bloated and cluttered, so I had to spend a lot of time getting things done, and the distractions never left my life, and when I was with my family, I couldn't be completely "on the scene". Although I know it is necessary to give it a ring, but the phone is a shock, I was "summoned" back.

The meeting went to the second part. One after another, everyone describes their own solutions. The first is to use software to help managers track the progress of the project within the company, followed by individual efficiency applications, and others who suggest that they can make the most of their time when they walk in the morning and give back their calls.

Like the difficulties encountered, all solutions have one thing in common: they are all about technology.

This sounds like a group of people explaining how they used heroin to replace the addiction to methadone.

In the past, technology was used to solve small problems in people's lives. By now, technology is being used to solve small problems caused by technology. In a way, we all thought it was a bit of a struggle-but there was no APP that could help us. What computer algorithms can prove that quiet walking without a cell phone is balanced?

Let's take a look at our health problems: In order to relieve the side effects of the medication, we swallowed another new drug, which has its own side effects-a cycle that can go on indefinitely. But at least there is evidence that the original disease can be cured by drugs.

Being more connected with people does not solve problems caused by being too close. The introduction of more technology to solve the problems brought about by technology can at best produce the placebo effect of the internet age. We thought things were starting to get better, but it was just a part of the same addiction that we had a distance from the technology.

We are still in the early stages of the information revolution, and in the future we will be more connected and more intrusive. Now, we can't get back to our heads. I am the one sitting around the table; When I write these words, I also look at Twitter for a reminder that if I'm on a plane that doesn't have Wifi, I'll be constantly working on my phone's email application and five other apps in the aircraft model-I'm naturally not qualified to tell people to quit technology, but I'm sure In this era, we can make a better choice.

Ironically, when we sat down together for a short period of time, everyone found the desired balance: we put the equipment on one side and the laptop was closed, and we talked face-to-face for almost one hours. At the end of the meeting, everyone felt better than at first.

We find that the solution to the overload of technology is to turn it off. To achieve the balance between work and life is actually only a key to the distance, do you believe it?