Struggling to Make Time for Self-Care? How to Hit Pause and Focus on You

Extract from: Struggling to Make Time for Self-Care? How to Hit Pause and Focus on You published on Rolling Stone Culture Council October 22, 2025

Use the Forced Disconnection During Travel as Strategic ‘Uptime’

My strategy is scheduling long-haul travel like flights, trains or buses. For 10-plus hours, I am in a state of enforced disconnection - no emails, no AI assistants. I don’t use this as downtime; I use it as deep, strategic uptime. This forced quiet allows me to step back from daily noise, think for myself and gain the clarity needed to solve the big problems. - Jason Barnard, Kalicube®