Summary: TVC 060 Digital Detoxing With guest Tim Reid<br> Digital Detox and the art of looking up. <br> Part of the influencer series is scouring the world for people who really are living and creating the life they love not only in business but also in life. I didn’t leave the continent for my next guest as he’s an Australian native and well known in the podcast wilderness…<br> I’m very fortunate to have snared a little bit of time away from the very popular Tim Reid. Founder and host of Australia’s number 1 marketing podcast, <a href="http://smallbusinessbigmarketing.com/" target="_blank">The Small Business Big Marketing Show. </a><br> Tim and I talk turkey about digital devices and the art of looking up. A no-nonsense approach to getting connected to what really matters in business and in life.<br> <br> #digitaldetox101<br> <br> Here’s some quick pointers on what you’ll learn from this episode with Tim<br> <br> * The internet – it’s our everything and yet we don’t need it every second of the day<br> * The importance of looking just 3cm up and what you’ll notice as a result<br> * Key roles parents play in setting boundaries<br> * Key roles leaders play in setting examples – getting up away from your desk, having more face to face time, less emails unless necessary and picking up the phone more often<br> * The fact that peoples dying wish is not to have made more Facebook posts – but to have more friends, more time with people they love and more connection with those and the wonderful things around them<br> * Try the smile game (without being too creepy..) just make more eye contact for a split second with people, smile when people hand you your change or your coffee, stop talking on your phone when you go to order something, be present.<br> <br> The online thing’s here to stay. The internet will take off and we can acknowledge that it’s only going to grow. However, let’s not let it rule our lives.<br> Tim mentioned it used to rule his life and he has chosen not to let it. From a marketing stand point there has never been a better time to market a business, or to build a personal brand. <br> The opportunities to do that are extensive and a lot of them rely on being online but that doesn’t mean that you should spend your entire life online. It’s even more relevant when you start to try and bring a family up and instil different values and boundaries around iPads, iPhones and computers.<br> <br> I’m the father of 3 teenagers yet I’m this marketing guy who talks about there’s never been a better time to market a business. I’ve got to embrace both and I do say to my kids, “Hey guys just look 3 cm up. There’s a world around you. Look out, look people in the eye.” I fear that we’re losing that ability to communicate on, what we used to, on a human level. <br> <br> <br> SO WHAT’S NEXT<br> Remember the importance of being yourself, of building business relationships on authentic contact, of going to visit a friend instead of just staring at their life online. Of asking your teams at work and your teenagers at home how they really are – and not be staring at a screen while you do this.<br> <br> The role we have now is to learn to bring back the balance between human connection and connectivity.<br> <br> To bridge the gap between what people say and what we really do. To reach out, to have a conversation over dinner and to really listen, to walk and talk for meeting and notice nature around you.<br> To harness time out for creativity and to recharge our energy levels and personal wellbeing so we are truly equipped to live a life that demands time, space and communications online.<br> <br> 1 thing you can do right now to digital detox:<br>
