As technology is helping to balance work and personal life?

The more technology develops, and the more accessible they become, the more time is taken away from people. The abundance of new applications make people sit all day, buried in their smart phones and not paying attention to each other.

However, this does not mean that the developed technologies are threatening to destroy the warm personal relations, Conversely, if they are utilized properly, they help find the perfect balance between work and personal a life. Six Ways of Ilya Poznina, entrepreneur, founder of the Open Me and Clipex - this practical advice on how technology helps free up time for a personal life.

Life is short, and the abundance of technological achievements that fill our life, get help from it all you can. Rather than see the technical progress as a disaster for the human relations can be considered their way to improve their lives and spend more time with their family and friends.

Someone is trying to set priorities in your life, choose a job or a house, and is torn between them, not knowing what is more important. But life can be seen in another way - as a combination of professional and personal life, and rapid advances in technology only helps to find a balance between these different areas.

Here are some examples of how this works:

1. I can do something faster

If you are using some kind of technological advances for work or household chores, this helps speed up the process. For example, if you use Google Maps, or more narrowly focused programs Wazr and Beat the Traffic to track the traffic on the road, you will find the shortest route to the house.

The time you have stood in traffic without these services, you can spend on communication with family or on your hobbies. In addition, an experiment showed that the time on the road to work is crucial to your relationship.

If you get to the house longer than 45 minutes, it increases the risk of divorce by 40%. You should not allow the ruin your personal relationships, especially when everything can be corrected appropriately allocate their time. And technology plays an important role here.

2. High performance

Everyone knows that high-tech is often hampered productivity, distracting from the work to different things. But not when they are used in the right way.

For example, the program Evernote syncs all your notes, to-do lists, cuts and major reminders of the different mobile devices. This ensures that you do everything on time and do not forget anything.

application Cloud On It helps to create Microsoft documents on any mobile devices and always have them on hand. You will be able to work anywhere, when you have some free time, and devote the evening family.

This list goes on and on: ActiveInboxWhich allows you to get more from your e-mail, Google Drive and many other programs and applications that help make your business more quickly and devote more time to his personal life.

3. New ways to get news

Times when you learned the news only from the newspapers and television have sunk into oblivion. Thanks to the internet we can get the news faster than ever before, and more convenient way.

Pick up any news site - the service collects, analyzes and ranks the clear structure of news from different points of the planet, so you can find any interesting news for a couple of minutes. You quickly get what you want, and you can go back to their personal affairs.

Thanks to technology, you can leave home, only to communication and entertainment with the family, and read the article later when stay alone.

Programs such as Pocket and Instapaper allow you to save web pages and return to them later, for example when you are standing in a traffic jam, or go to work on public transport. Kill two birds at once - and dispel boredom and leave more time to communicate with loved ones.

4. saving money

To budget and save - it's long and sad, and modern technology helps to make it easier and get more for the same money.

For example, with special services, such as KayakYou can save money on air travel, buying cheap tickets to thousands of sites you can buy cheap items and technology, as well as to sell unwanted stuff on Craigslist or popular Russian Avito. Buy concert tickets at a discount, and even the food at a discount sites such as Day to Day.

Until the frantic progress of technology was much more difficult to do it all.

5. Routine tasks twice as fast

Do you still remember the days when to watch a movie with the family had to go to the cinema? If not, it probably remember your parents. Today you spend the time to choose the movie that you want to watch, hanging on some kinoservise.

It became easier to buy products - the same Day to Day or application Korzinka. You can not go to the store, products and household goods delivered to your home.

Technology can do things twice as fast, and around this speed and efficiency of a huge amount of built services, for example, the company itself Poznina OpenMe, which helps people to quickly select and place your card without leaving houses.

6. Choosing the best option

Thanks to numerous reviews and testimonials on the Internet, we can learn about each company, services and products before you book and pay. For example, after reading reviews on Menu.ru and other similar sites, you can learn everything about the restaurant, and not waste time and mood for it to check the quality of food and service for yourself.

Technology, Apps is not just useful tools - they are an integral part of a full life and productive work. But, as always, do not go to extremes and make a deity technologies.

Man must use technology as a tool for raising the efficiency of, and does not allow to make choices for themselves, or manage themselves.

That you are in control of your life and decide what will be the technology for you - a hindrance in work and personal life, or a tool that will help establish the perfect balance.