30 Things That Changed When I Took An Unplugged Day Every Week

“My imagination functions much better when I don’t have to speak to people.”
~ Patricia Highsmith

In January this year I made an important decision. I have a life where I am almost always on call. Always connected and reachable. Always busy. Even though I work for myself and love my work, and I certainly don’t work every hour of every day, I had reached a point where I was doing some kind of work every day.

So this year I decided to make a change and designated Sunday as my unplugged day.

I made some simple rules for this unplugged day:

• no work
• no blogging
• not even a skerrick of work
• no social media
• no checking emails
• no checking my phone
• no surfing the net
• no games on my phone or tablet
• no saying yes to invitations out of duty or obligation
• no answering my cell phone (only family, close friends…