You're listening to the Gold Digger podcast episode number 298.

If you were to wake up tomorrow morning, turn off your phone and laptop and put them in your desk drawer for the whole day, how would it make you feel?

What feelings does that simple thought evoke for you?

Would you feel elated and free like a weight was lifted off of your shoulders or would you feel entirely anxious, frazzled and guilty, that you're suddenly unavailable?

That someone might need to reach you and suddenly you're unreachable.

Few years ago, I was at one of my favorite places in the entire world, Camp Wandawega, and I was doing yoga on the front lawn on a blanket, and I remember the instructor leading us through a pose and saying, relax.

No one needs you in this very moment.

And I remember thinking, well, that's not totally true.

I mean, someone might need me. And that thought is only heightened now that I'm a mom.

But all of these years later, I'm still holding onto that message, especially when I start to feel myself being a little too available.

I saw a funny meme the other day, and it said, remember the old days when we would say BRB when we left the internet?

Well, now we never leave. We live here. And it's kind of true, isn't it?

The sad truth for many of us is that we're probably leaning more towards feeling stressed and anxious about being disconnected instead of feeling freedom when we think about the idea.

Taking a day off and being completely disconnected from work, even email is a strange concept for so much the American workforce.

Four out of 10 workers in America report working longer than 50 hours a week in the world's largest economy is the next workers with the longest hours include Australia, who citizens average and about 32 hours a week.

And Sweden and Switzerland, who's workers each clock about 31 hours a week of work in comparison.

And we work longer than all of them and it seems we only want to continue that trend.

Plus workers in the US get about 15 days of PTO or personal time off on average and take about 14 of those each year.

European countries, they give their employees 28 days of PTO and while they don't always use all of them, it's astounding to see the difference in how important our country considers time off.

While you might be an entrepreneur or have an unorthodox work life with flexibility and different work hour standards, I bet you can still relate to the fact that you work more than the average human and you sell them if ever fully disconnect.

I definitely say it's more difficult sometimes to turn it off as an entrepreneur, especially one that works from home.

And work is always accessible. There are so many avenues and ways people are reaching out and meeting you.

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