Print 🖨 PDF 📄 eBook 📱Isn’t it great that we have modern technology to simplify our lives. Or is it? I’m self-employed and spend much of my time at the computer. Modern technology is fantastic in the way it has helped me save time and effort on many tasks, such as banking, finding information on any subject online, paying accounts, quickly correcting typing mistakes and instantly connecting with people around the world. Technology has helped me to simplify my life. On the other hand, technology has complicated my life. While at my computer I found I was often distracted with emails, Facebook, news and sports bulletins, on-line articles and blogs. It’s insidious. A while back I read about an author who does not use email and has no phone in his office, so there are no distractions. I thought, :how great that would be, I’d love to be able to do that”. Then the penny dropped. Of course I could, it was simply a matter of turning off my phone and not opening the internet or emails until it suited me. This led me to critically analyse my online habits. I realised that by scanning most news and sports headlines, ...