Why disconnecting is important for reconnecting?

Abhishek Rathan Athreya
2 min readJan 11, 2018

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A while ago, I was following this amazing self-proclaimed challenge —

One Medium Post A Day

I had an amazing streak too! However, other priorities demanded attention and I was forced to disconnect from (writing on) Medium. This disconnected phase made me gain some valuable insights about Medium, my writing goals and myself —

Writing was just an ‘option’ to me.

Treating success as an option is one of the major reasons why people don’t create it for themselves — Grant Cardone

The fact that I chose other work over writing made me realize that writing was just an option to me. If something ‘urgent’ or ‘important’ came up, I would give up writing for it!

This mentality was not going to help me succeed in writing (or any goal for that matter).

**Realization**

In order to succeed at something, it needs to be a commitment, an absolute must. If I want to succeed in writing I have to treat it as an absolute must!

I was not stretching my creativity.

Creativity is Intelligence having fun — Albert Einstein

As I was not writing posts on Medium, I had time to reflect on the posts that I had already written. Most posts that I had written revolved around topics of Motivation, Productivity, Self-Improvement (you get the idea!). I was unknowingly writing on topics that I was personally inclined to. As the topics were limited, my creativity wasn’t used to the fullest.

**Realization**

The more I suppress my creativity, the more confined my thinking will be. Confined thinking is NOT going to take me anywhere close to my goals.

I had no strategy.

A vision with a strategy remains an illusion — Lee Bolman

The whole reason I landed in a position where two priorities conflicted was because I had no strategy. I used to wake up in the morning and ‘figure out’ the rest of the day.

*Realization**

If I wish to tackle the tasks I encounter as and when they show up, I’m bound to fail. To truly succeed in a day, I need to prioritize my tasks and allocate time windows for them. Strategy is necessary for me to execute well.

**Conclusion**

You will have (or be forced) to disconnect from the some step towards your success. Instead of whining, use this time to reflect and figure out ways to reconnect. I did it with writing and found out three major action items —

  • Make writing a commitment.
  • Stretch Creativity.
  • Strategize EVERYDAY!

I reconnected with something I had disconnected with. If I can, so can you. What was the task you disconnected with? Spend some time to reflect on it. Do you wish to reconnect?

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Abhishek Rathan Athreya

Self-Improvement blogger. Motivational speaker. Technology Enthusiast.