Digital communication devices are taking more and more people time for communication processes. Moreover, in most cases, a significant part of this time is spent without urgent need. Studies confirm that people can turn to checking smartphones for incoming notifications dozens of times a day, which in the conditions of the labor process can adversely affect the quality of work.
However, there is a way out - the director of one of the large companies, Kerry McKeegan, noticing a bad habit of regularly looking into a mobile gadget, decided to limit the use of the device for a month. About what results she managed to achieve, and will be discussed below.
Stimulation of thought processes
Exemption from unnecessary information and the need to regularly switch attention has a beneficial effect on the brain. According to the woman, she began to think clearly and productively. As a result, she began to appear new solutions to work problems, and some problems completely disappeared by themselves.
Of course, this did not happen immediately, since in the early days McKeegan was still tormented by the craving for the phone. She had to restructure her attitude to the habit that had developed, but the positive effect was worth it.
Reading of books
Smartphones are often used to just take time while waiting for something. McKeegan can not be called an exception - she also turned to the device on the first occasion, when she had to be inactive. But after revising her habit, she decided to replace the usual viewing of social networks with reading electronic books.
Not every literature can be easily perceived and assimilated regardless of external circumstances, therefore, in choosing the materials for reading, McKeegan also took this aspect into account. Mostly its digital library is composed of books on marketing and leadership. The woman notes that even in the mode of jerky reading sessions, such filling with knowledge is of great help to her precisely from the point of view of enriching professional qualities.
Reassessed Communication Capabilities
McKeegan soon noticed an unpleasant factor of restrictions in terms of using a smartphone. Nevertheless, for a modern business person, getting out of the communication environment in social networks means the exclusion of many advantages, which are also associated with saving time.
Previously, electronic media gave McKeegan, as a director, to control business communications, contacts, and notifications from agents, tax officials, and business partners. In addition, everyday life to a large extent depended on the quality of the organization of various events through the same social networks. Therefore, she left for herself the opportunity to use a smartphone as a means of wide communication, but only if necessary. Despite all the disadvantages of human interaction with mobile devices, she considers a complete rejection of this practice wrong.
Conclusion
The approach to using the phone proposed by McKeegan can be called balanced and reasonable, since it retains for a person the advantages of new communication technologies, but at the same time cuts off their shortcomings. The main criteria in setting limits should be the principles of expediency and rationality in each case. After all, the problem of dedicating an excessive amount of time to gadgets and social networks in itself is caused not at all by a vital need, but by a habit developed.And although McKeegan faced some difficulties at the stage of abandoning the usual mode of using a smartphone, the beneficial effects from this innovation fully justified the discomfort that arose.