As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "Be not the slave of your own past—plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old."

If Emerson lived today, he'd find out that society is a little messed up right now. Human interactions have been replaced by device interactions. In essence, we've become slaves to technology. It's time to take a step back and ask ourselves, after all these years of instant communication, are we better off than we were before? I'm convinced that we've stopped managing technology and allowed technology to begin managing us.

This blog might change your life. Then again, it might not. I want you to read this with an open mind. Instead of thinking "this wouldn't work for me," understand that "this" works for me, and it's been working for me for about two years.

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