Inhabitat Editor Jill Fehrenbacher's New Year's Resolution

Technology and media professionals today are besieged by an increasingly blurred boundary between life and work.  The downside to the wonderful technology that has allowed us to take our laptop (or blackberry) everywhere we go and work remotely from any location has led to precisely that - people working from anywhere and everywhere - at all times - to the detriment of their families and personal lives.  The upside of the 1990's model of being chained to an office cubicle meant that when you left your desk at 5pm you were psychologically free to shelve work thoughts until the next morning and enjoy the rest of your life without a thought for work's problems.  Today's increasingly mobile workforce don't have that luxury of a physical divide between life and work, and this is manifesting in an increasing erosion of screen-free personal time.

As the publisher of the Inhabitat family of blogs and a work-from-home entrepreneur, I know all too well how easy it is to get sucked into round-the-clock work.  The laptop is always there, and every time I look at it there seems to be some new email or AIM message requiring my attention -- whether or not it is 4pm in the afternoon or 11pm at night. It is not just me who is suffering the consequences of my perpetual distraction by laptop and phone.  My family needs more of my time and energy, and I know it's important that I break the addiction to my laptop.  So this year I'm resolving to break the psychological shackles of 24-7 access to technology... but you might be surprised about how I plan to do it!  Watch this video to hear my plan for how technology can help me log off.