20 Tips for Going Wireless and Having Freedom from Technology

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Yesterday’s post about my trip to Vancouver and going wireless for three WHOLE days inspired a lot of comments and questions.  How do you do that?

Here are my 20 Tips for Going Wireless:

1. Leave your home and leave your laptop at home.
2. Get a manicure.
3. Play the piano or the banjo or the accordion.  (Idle hands are the devil’s playthings!)
4. Cook and/or Bake.
5. Leave your cell phone or PDA/Smartphone at home.
6. Travel to a country where you don’t have cell or wireless coverage.
7. Take up a very “manually consuming” hobby, like knitting.  (Thanks to Julianne Smith for that one!)
8. Invest in solely a desktop computer that stays at your office.
9. Go swimming.
10. Ask your spouse, roommate or friend to hide your technology until 9am the following morning.
11. If you have a home office, lock the door at 6pm every night.
12. Go to the movies.
13. Accidentally drop your Smartphone  in the toilet.
14. Put a lock on it.
15. If you are a social media junkie (like me) download LeechBlock, a Firefox add-on to limit the time you spend on certain sites.  (Thanks to Lara Casey for that one!)
16. Go to the gym.
17. Grab a cup of coffee with a friend.
18. Talk on the phone instead of typing on it.
19. Watch Mad Men.
20. Sleep.

I hope these tips help you go wireless…. or, at the very least, give you a giggle!