Digital Detox Business Benefit 4: Helps Protect From Bad Decision-Making

Business owners have to make critical decisions every day. But in chronically stressful situations, your cognitive structure—the pattern you use to process information—begins to break down. That, in turn, hurts your ability to regulate emotions, and negative stimuli feels way more threatening. Guess what can happen when you feel threatened? You may jump to inaccurate conclusions or take inappropriate risks. Conversely, you might become paranoid that your resources aren’t enough to meet the challenges at hand, making you unable to take appropriate risks to advance your business.

A digital detox lets your cognitive structure begin to heal. When you’re no longer in fight or flight, you can accurately assess the situation and make wise, rational decisions that aren’t fear-based.