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This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

Today's tip is to unplug to get things done.

Consciously putting yourself somewhere without digital distractions

might help you power through something you have been procrastinating on.

So a few weeks ago, the Wi-Fi went out at my house. It's kind of a long

story about how this all happened, and it wound up being out for about a week. In the first day,

before we figured out some workarounds, we truly had very little digital access. I couldn't load web pages or email on my phone when I was

inside the house, and my laptop couldn't access the internet either. This was all frustrating,

but there was this silver lining. I had been putting off working on a draft of an article.

On Friday, after my internet went out, I couldn't do a lot of other things.

And I couldn't pretend to be productive by checking my email a lot.

So, I wrote a draft.

It only took me a few hours when I wasn't giving myself the option of doing a million other things

at the same time. Perhaps you've experienced something similar on a plane. Now, I know you can get

Wi-Fi on a lot of planes these days, but sometimes you can't if you are over water and sometimes

the system is a little buggy, or expensive.

If it is a short flight, I tend not to make an attempt.

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