Too Connected to Your Gadgets? 5 Ways to Disconnect Right Now

I am pleased to share with you my guest post featured today on Alex Blackwell’s wonderful blog, The Bridgemaker.

While we’re advancing in our technological abilities and skills, we are regressing in our real, authentic and meaningful connections with one another. We’ve gained in technology and lost in humanism.

Can we embrace both or must one be at the expense of the other?

Click here to continue reading this post over at The Brigemaker.

Thanks for stopping by. How are you balancing your life with your hook-ups?

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