The CHILDREN of the 1980s were the last before a lot of THINGS CHANGED. We were the last generation not to have cell phones, not to have VIDEO GAMES, not to have parents who worried if we strayed from the yard.

What I discovered all over IRELAND is that PEOPLE living simple LIVES by the sea or in the remote countryside SEEM a lot calmer than city folk with their iPads and their Android phones.

Television is an intimately personal medium, especially with so MANY people WATCHING on their phones or laptops. STYLE PRESSURE comes with the territory.

The BLUE light emanating from our CELL phones, our tablets and our laptops is PLAYING havoc on our brain chemicals: our serotonin, our melatonin. It's screwing up our sleep PATTERNS, our happiness, our appetites, our carbohydrate cravings.

Here's the PROBLEM with PHONES - they are a ready-made diversion from the considerably HARDER WORK of GROWING a business.