We are living longer, healtier and happier lives–or so the experts tell us. What can you do to take care of your mind, body and soul? Go interesting places. Eat good food. Here are some ways to help you live your best life now.

Technology was supposed give us shortcuts to work. It promised to give us more leisure time to spend with loved ones, play sports and pursue fitness, engage with our communities, and explore our world. Those who remember the PC revolution bought these notions and raised our children to use a mouse before they could a pencil. Have we turned them into digital orphans with our reliance of technology?

In the not-so-distant past there was a thing called banker’s hours. Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. made the 40-hour work week. A person went to their place of business, performed their job, then returned home. Sure, many professionals took work home—teachers graded papers, attorneys studied cases, accountants crunched numbers, etc. One might get called in for a weekend of work, but compensation in pay or perks could be expected. The advent of the smartphone has changed that.

Life coaches and productivity experts agree that smartphones are a top contributor to business burnout. We text instead of talk. We group chat instead of meet. We look back and forth between screens instead of people. The reliance on smartphones for business has created an unspoken 24/7 work week that isn’t healthy.

We’ve done this to ourselves–allowed this to happen. Productivity experts like Holland Holiis are ringing alarms at how digital communications actually backfire in the productivity department. Many of them endorse a digital detox plan to wean us off our dependence on instantaneous communication.

Detox your digital dependence

In a nutshell, digital detox means turning off and putting away digital devices for a set amount of time on a regular basis. In his book, Log Off: How to Stay Connected after Disconnecting, Blake Snow writes, “I used to work 11-hour weekdays and half-day Saturdays, and I was mentally consumed with work for much of the remainder.” After a family wilderness vacation without internet access, he found himself reconnected to his family in unexpected and vital ways. When digital detoxing, he recommends turning off all digital devices. “That means no alerts, beeps, buzzes, or notifications of any kind, perhaps with the exception of voicemails for emergencies.”

Create something with your hands

Knitting: Vickie Howell

Eat well to feel better

Cooking/dining out: Who?

Move it, skake it, crunch it, spin it

Exercise that isn’t exercise

Go somewhere you’ve never been

Explore your own neighborhood or travel to somewhere you’ve always wanted to go.

Find your spiritual center

Not religion, but spirituality