Episode 15 of The Rewired Podcast is now live.
This one exposes the deal you never agreed to, and why your phone has turned you into a vending machine for everyone else’s demands.
You answer calls during dinner. You check emails at midnight. You wake to notifications from people who think their urgency is your emergency. You call this being professional. Being responsive. Being a good person.
You’re not connected. You’re owned.
Somewhere along the way, you traded your nervous system for the illusion of being needed. Now you’re accessible to everyone and fully present for no one. Your partner gets the half-listening version. Your kids get the physically-there-but-mentally-elsewhere version. Your work gets the running-on-fumes version.
Everyone gets access. Nobody gets you.
I nearly destroyed myself living this way. Clients calling at 6am. Candidates messaging at 11pm. Drinking to create the space I hadn’t built. Available to the world, absent from my own life. The business looked successful. I was approaching a breakdown.
Then, i stopped being available 24/7 and everything changed.
10 minutes on why other people’s expectations are not your obligations, and what changes when you stop apologising for having boundaries. Click above to listen.
-Chris
P.S. What would actually happen if you turned off notifications for a week? Not what you fear would happen. What would actually happen?
