When we review our time management challenges and lament the lack of free hours, we find the cause is often technology. This productivity issue jumped out in the Marketplace section of this week’s “Wall Street Journal” with the heading No Day at the Beach: Bloggers Struggle With What to Do About Vacation.”

The dilemma focused on those bloggers with huge audiences, 67,000 to 200,000 unique visitors who are loyal to the one person writing the entries. Even having a guest writer take over caused drops of a third or more.

Now, on the one hand, so many of us writing blogs would love to have large audiences; but at what point is it too much? Only 10% of bloggers spend 10 or more hours a week on their writings. However to garner that tally of unique visitors one obviously is devoting many hours per day. This then interferes with vacations and even weekend jaunts.

Success is great, and today many of us are pumped on adrenaline throughout the day. However there is going to be a price for that in the long term. Our bodies were not designed to be on a “flight or fight” alert all day. Immune systems wear down. Illness creeps in.

What have you found to be your biggest challenges with technology? What coping mechanisms have you been able to put in place to deal with continuing demands throughout your days?