About six weeks ago, I decided to take some time away from LinkedIn. I won’t go into the reasons behind this decision again, you can read all about that in the post I just linked to, but I do want to take some time and look back on the past six weeks and the things that not spending so much time on LinkedIn have brought me.

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A six-week reflection on stepping away from LinkedIn reveals positive outcomes including increased productivity in course development, stronger training business performance with 5 days delivered in January, more frequent blog writing (4 posts versus 13 in all of 2025), and more time for reading and cycling training. The author plans to focus primarily on training business in 2026 for flexibility, will remain largely absent from LinkedIn, and prefers email communication for professional connections.

My LinkedIn break - six weeks in