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Taking Back Stolen Time

By David Werdiger | 1 min read

After surviving the Holocaust, my cousin’s father-in-law came to the U.S. With no formal documents from his home coun...

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Becoming Time Rich

By David Werdiger | 1 min read

Some buy back time with money. But what’s it worth if it’s lost to scrolling? Once a week, I unplug—no phone, no lapt...

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Are You Visiting the Digital World — or Living There?

By David Werdiger | 1 min read

We call Gen Z “digital natives” – they’ve never known life without tech. I’m Gen X: a “digital immigrant,” rais...

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From Good Intention to Lasting Habit

By David Werdiger | 1 min read

A friend of mine, who is a personal trainer, once tried to take weekly tech breaks. However, after three weeks, he ga...

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Day of Rest as a Modern Necessity

By David Werdiger | 1 min read

The 7-day work week has been around since the Romans. Weekends were meant for rest. But tech and social media have bl...

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Permission to Rest

By David Werdiger | 1 min read

“I can’t unplug.”That’s what some people say Are you an emergency worker? On call 24/7? Even then, you have rostered ...

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Quiet by Design

By David Werdiger | 1 min read

Over the next few weeks, some posts will be scheduled to go out on my channels, but you won’t see me online. That’s b...

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Haunted by Notifications

By David Werdiger | 1 min read

Ever reached for your phone because you felt a “buzz”… only to find nothing there? That’s PVS: phantom vibration synd...

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A Better Kind of Victory

By David Werdiger | 1 min read

Some things are more important than football—sometimes even your favorite team. Over the years I’ve faced those momen...

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Productivity culture runs like a hamster wheel. It just keeps running, at the same pace, going nowhere.

Do you manage your time like a hamster wheel or do you put a training program in place and find time to rest?

There's a scene in "Mad Men" where Don Draper is asked what he thought about Hawaii, and instead of talking about beaches, he talks about becoming someone else. Not a version of himself with better tan lines and a Mai Tai. A different person. One who, for a few days, didn't miss

I recently took one of the best holidays of my life, and I never left the resort.

Turns out the destination is beside the point. What you're actually chasing is a change of pace, and if your holiday runs on the same schedule as your working week, you've just moved the treadmill

We have strategies for our careers, our finance, our help.

Pleased to announce a program to help answer an important question: “what’s your strategy for your time?”

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