When I was on holiday, I switched off email alerts. Then
Twitter,
Instagram and
Facebook followed. When I got home, I decided to keep culling …
‘It always happens when you least expect it.” Or so the adage goes; the romantic notion that the job of your dreams or the love of your life will appear when you’re not trying. In my life, this does not ring true: every job I’ve landed I tried very hard to get, and even in the realm of love there has been work to nurture and maintain it.
But when it comes to better mental calm, it did arrive when I least expected it, as an unintended consequence of a tiny tweak: turning notifications off on my phone.