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Turn off your email turn off your phone disconnect from the Internet figure out a way to set limits so you can concentrate when you need to, and disengage when you need to. Technology is a good servant but a bad master.
Gretchen Rubin
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Gretchen Rubin
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: December 14
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Kansas City
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