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I hear people talking about going on holiday with their family and then find them responding to email or popping up on twitter, even finding time to blog. I am going to make a suggestion here. Stop it. Go on holiday with you family and cut yourself off. Your family will like it and your brain will like it. It needs to rest sometimes and sleep is not the same thing.
Sometimes it is good to cut out the back ground noise and think about other things.
I just took a leave of absence from “online”, I still did mail and calls, but I totally reduced the amount of time I was on twitter, or rss, or blogs or another interaction. I had some home DIY projects I needed to do and some focused project work. And I wanted to reevaluate a few things.
What I discovered was that we can tell our selves we have balance, but really its an unbalanced view to start with. We are so used to the noise and bustle that we need to stop and listen to silence to actually see what is just noise and what is valid.
What I noticed is that I was consuming more than contributing. Which is not sending the right message about me.
But it also re-enforced my original decision to limit the number of people I follow. I don’t care about following thousands of people. Just people who say things of interest. Sure I may be missing some info but when I need it I can search.
And that is the main thing I have realized. Real time is all well and good but its not always the right time. I don’t need to know everything the second it happens, not unless it directly concerns me.

So give you mind a rest, take a break, a real break and have a good think. Your mind and your family will thank you.