Vacations are meant to be relaxing, but it’s easy to ruin your sense of a break by constantly checking your phone, whether you’re tuning into the news or scoping out your work email.
Disrupting your recharge not only distracts from your vacation experience, but it also makes it tough to truly unwind.
Here are some ways to make sure you unplug – and stay unplugged.
Truly Get Off the Grid
Find a place that doesn’t have cell phone service or wireless internet readily available for your next vacation. Then, you won’t even be tempted to dial back into real life while you’re away.
Out of Office
Set your out of office message, and make sure it says you won’t have access to email or phone while you’re away.
No Notifications
Turn off your phone’s notifications, whether related to new email, social media or texts. Better yet, delete those apps from your phone — it’s easy enough to add them back when you’re ready to re-enter society.
Read
Buy some good books, so you can become engrossed in a story that doesn’t involve reading on your phone.
Leave Your Phone Behind
Leave your phone in the hotel room, or turn it on airplane mode if you still want to take it with you for photography purposes.
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