A blessing or a curse?

I don't know how you are but I LOVE technology. I enjoy figuring out how things work. I love the challenge of setting up a new device. I love that I can live my life the way I want and still feel connected to my family, friends, ex-students and colleagues from all over the world. I love that I can run my business while having a relaxing time at a cafe or on the beach. I love that I can travel and don't miss out on things if I choose to stay connected. I love that I can see all my messages coming in but don't need to answer them because I can decide right away what is urgent and what is important. It saves me time and worry.

However, I am not one of those people, who make long and loud conversations in public places ruining other people's meals or conversations. Neither I am one who need to check my Facebook page all the time. However, I love seeing what's happening if I have the time. I have a life. I run businesses and have a few very close and dear friends.

I have never been a big sleeper. Even as a teenager, I loved reading late into the night until my parents came in my room to make me turn off the light and told me to go to sleep. I operate really well on 4-6 hours sleep and wake refreshed and ready for action. Of course, it was not always like this. I remember times when I was lecturing and performing that I need that good 5-10 minutes nap in the car or in the chair in the office around 2-3pm to recharge my batteries to continue with the second half of the day.

Now, having an IPad and an IPhone on top of my MacBookPro, the concerning new habit is that I rest my IPad next to my bad. i do that because I use it as my alarm. I really like the very soft, gentle SCIFI sound as my wake up sound if I need an alarm. I like to go to bed and read on my IPad, watch a program I missed on IView, check my messages, pin a picture to my Pinterest board or get back to my friends who sent me an email through Facebook.

If I can't sleep, I don't toss and turn or spend agonizing hours in bed at night but I grab my IPad and check Facebook and see what my friends on the other part of world are up to. When I get sleepy, I just go back to sleep. The first thing I do when I wake up and before get out of bed is check my messages and share a few pictures on my business pages. Work is almost done before I get out of bed!

So for me technology is a blessing. It makes my life easier and my business dealings simple and fast. Without it no way, I could be in daily contact with my overseas friends, ex-students and with my only family member, my brother.

Many times I look around and I wonder...how did people survive in the past without mobile phones, smart phones and IPads?

It is like everything. Can be used for good or bad. Be smart and make these devices serve you. Don't be a slave to them!

One more advice. People that are in your presence enjoy priority. Always.