Is Your Cell Phone Holding You Captive?

Is your cell phone holding you captive is something that business owners need to ask themselves as a way to affectively manage their time. Although cell phones are an easy way to keep in contact with your clients and business associates when you are on the go; the question you have to ask yourself, “Is my cell phone holding me captive?”.

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Below are ways to tell if your cell phone is holding you captive:

• Do you grab your cell phone when you wake up first thing in the morning?
• Before going to bed, do you have to check your cell phone for message?
• Have you fallen asleep while texting others from your cell phone?
• If you take a flight on a plane, do you have to wait to the last minute to get off your phone or are you the first one who gets on your phone as soon as the plane lands before it gets to the gate.
• When watching a movie at a movie theatre, you don’t turn off your phone but put it on vibrate so that you can still answer it. Or you don’t even turn it on vibrate for fear that you wouldn’t feel the vibration of your phone and you don’t want to miss a call or text.
• Do you feel that you have lost a dear friend if you forget your cell phone at home?

If you find that these are true about you, then there is help for you so that you can get your cell phone usage under control.

• Setup up black-out time for your cell phone usage so that you can have downtime from using your cell phone.
• Realize that it’s OK to allow calls to go to voicemail. Just remember that it’s important to return voicemails.
• Before taking or making a call, determine how much time you will spend on the phone. It’s important that you keep to your scheduled time.
• If you end up on a call with a chatty person, make sure that you have a plan in place on how to get them off of the call.
• It’s OK if you forget your cell phone at home occasionally. Don’t get overwhelmed because when you return home, you will be reunited with it.