Are You Addicted to Your Device?
Legacy signals
Legacy popularity: 1,738 legacy views
This past weekend, while we were away for the 4th of July holiday, I had a profound realization of how addicted I've become to my iPhone. While I love many aspects of how technology enhances our lives and allows us to connect with one another in some very cool ways, I'm also aware of the potential dark side of being so connected technologically that we lose connection with ourselves, those around us, and what truly matters.
In this week's video blog, I talk about this challenge that many of us face these days. I turned my phone off for 24 hours over the weekend. Although this was simple to do on the surface, it wasn't all that easy... but some amazing things happened when I did.
Check out the video below and feel free to leave a comment here on my blog about it. You can share thoughts, questions, ideas, insights, or anything else that this video inspires.
Article author
About the Author
Mike Robbins (www.Mike-Robbins.com) is the author of two books, Focus on the Good Stuff, and Be Yourself, Everyone Else is Already Taken, which have been translated into 14 different languages, as well as the forthcoming book Nothing Changes Until You Do, which comes out in May of 2014. He's an expert in teamwork, leadership, and emotional intelligence who delivers inspirational keynote addresses to audiences throughout the world. His clients include Google, Wells Fargo, Twitter, Gap, Adobe, the US Department of Labor, Stanford University, the San Francisco Giants, and many others.
Further reading
Further Reading
Article
testing1
April 4, 2026
Article
Time to be Positive
This is the time to be positive and avoid negative thinking at all costs. Negative thoughts will ruin your life. Instead, fill your mind with positive thoughts. Today and everyday think of all the great things that are taking place in your life. I'm not saying this just because it's the start of a new work week.
Related piece
Article
Discover the Power of Believing
The key to your success is your ability to change your belief system. Your beliefs create your reality - change your beliefs and you change your life. What beliefs do you currently have that keep you from attaining goals that you want to achieve in life? Is it fear? Or the feeling that you need to have something before
Related piece
Article
Stretch Rules of Happiness
Here are some rules that I live by. I call them my Stretch Rules if you will. No matter what happens in my life, I don’t let anything violate my core essence which is based upon these rules. That is what Stretch Yourself is all about. Asking yourself a simple honest question, “What do you truly believe? When you un
Related piece