How did business get done before technology? Just fine thanks. The cliche is that the more things change, the more they remain the same and with technology nothing is more true than that.
Consider this: Back ten to twenty years ago if you couldn’t reach a person, you left a message on their answering machine and he or she might return your call.
Today: You text a person on their cell phone and if they are getting tons of texts or e-mails they may or may not return your call.
Consider this: If you couldn’t reach a person, you would try calling back later back in the day.
Today: If you don’t get an immediate answer by text or e-mail you frantically start texting or e-mailing and the person gets mad and doesn’t return your call.
With some things I think it would be a great idea to take a technological moritorium for a few weeks. I am not saying that we give up the technology – far from it – I just want to make sure that we learn to become masters of it instead of becoming the slaves of it. How many minutes a day do you spend going through e-mail. Did you ever get that many letters or postcards in your mailbox even with junk mail on your worst days?
Twenty years ago the spam of the day was junk faxing. People would get junk faxes for everything with phone numbers, mortgage offers and the like. Hard to think that something like that kind of business – fax spamming – was profitable but somebody must have gotten some business to convince people to pay them to fax for them.
What is everybody’s hurry? Making money will happen. The end of the line for everybody’s big rush is a coffin. How about folks slow it down a little and enjoy life? The reason for my philosophical leanings is that periodically I take stock of my actions and look around me and ask myself if my quality of life is getting better, worse or maintaining. The quality of life includes one’s health, happiness as well as wealth and well being of family and friends.
Business deals can wait to some degree if you can plan accordingly and depending on your business and what is going on in your life. For some people, they are getting forced repose if they are laid off and hopefully they are getting their lives in a rhythm where they keep working. I will talk more about this later on as well in another post.
If you are getting more efficient and faster just so you can do more work without relaxing, you may be on the way to an early grave. Try to parse some repose in your life. I will talk about it in subsequent posts. In the meantime try a test by turning off your cell phone for a day or two if you can and don’t answer any e-mails. Let critical need to know people know that you are doing this so they don’t freak out and you don’t lose any important messages. The trick is to take a break so you will be saner in handling important messages.
Good luck and let me know how it turns out and if you like it.
Aug 26 2009
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How Did We Live Before Technology Just Fine Thanks
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