Do you *really* need to be contactable every minute of every day?

7. Turn off your computer

Today, we receive as much information in a single day as a person did in an entire year in early 1900 's. A large portion of that wave of information comes from our daily contact with computer... so turn it off. Check your email tomorrow. Give your mind a rest.

8. Get away from kids, pets, etc.

Ask a friend or family member to babysit/petsit for you for a day or two. (Then help them get some quiet time and return favor.)

9. Take a nap

We are much more sensitive to stress noise creates when we are lacking sleep. So take a nap and recharge your batteries.

10. Take a hike!

Literally. If you're going to surround yourself with noise, then surround yourself with noise of nature. Reconnect with yourself and with natural world around you, stroll around your favorite park or recreation area.

To prevent this, you must step back and take in entire thing.

Some times you may need to take a few steps back. And maybe even a few to one side. Or maybe you need to walk around it.

You must experiment. Move. Test your perceptions -- physical and philosophical -- until you come to an understanding of what it is that you are seeing.

Life, like art, is much same way.

Sometimes what we need is not to examine what we do more carefully, more exactly, but rather opposite. --Let us step back. See how pieces fit. How it all mixes together.

We may find that we are much closer to creating our goals than we think.

And we just may learn that a step back is often a step forward.