Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

Okay, my friend, a bit of a moment of truth here.

Let me ask you this.

Are you too available?

Are you too available?

The reason I ask this question is sometimes we think that we're being virtuous or being helpful or that there is something just really useful and kind about being so available.

And I would like to maybe present another option or another idea here

that could perhaps be even more true than the generosity of availability and can also really save you too in a lot of ways.

I remember years ago when smartphones really started to become very very smart. Right, all the apps, all the features, all the ways that we connect.

We all have, I think what, at least six or seven different inbox

whether it's a DM inbox LinkedIn inbox email inbox there are so many ways to people to get in touch I remember thinking

when I actually had my corporate job I just felt felt tired that day. There was just a lot

kind of incoming and I went just for a walk at lunchtime. I sat down at

Madison Square Park in New York and I left my phone. I just I was like I need a little break I didn't

need to go have some fresh air look at the sky and just connect to myself for a

moment. And in that moment sitting on that bench, as I looked around, of course, naturally, it's not a judgment, just an observation here.

Everyone was on their phone.

And I thought, oh, was on their phone.

And I thought, our phones are for our convenience.

They're not for the convenience of the world.

Of course anyone can reach me at any moment if I'm holding my phone and it's on vibrate or the sounds on and I've got notifications all, you know, alerting me.

That's not convenient for me. That's convenience for everybody else.

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