Why An Occasional Outage Is A Good Thing

I had a major internet service interruption at my office yesterday.  I called the service provider and found out that the whole block was offline and that it was going to be a while before service was restored.  I had five minutes of panic, thinking about where I needed to go to get back on the grid.  Then I stopped and thought about the work I had queued up for the day.

After looking through my list, it turned out that most everything I had to get done could be done offline.  Yes, I have a mi-fi backup, but instead of immediately cranking that up, I decided to just sit down and go to work on everything on my list and see how much I could get done without the normal interruptions.

I didn’t miss anything important, and got a ton of stuff done.

Question:  Do you ever disconnect from the grid intentionally?  If so, how does it affect your productivity?