Spend more time with friends and family

I don't advocate a workaholic lifestyle where you're taking calls constantly and never paying attention to the people in your personal life. But I do believe Bedouinism can get you out of your cubicle or office and into your home or wherever your family and friends are -- If you do it right.

Some critics slam the mobile lifestyle by saying that you never have any time off, that when e-mail comes in over the weekend, you are compelled to reply. But Bedouinism has no effect on the problem of workaholism -- it won't make you a workaholic if you aren't one now, and it won't cure workaholism, either. That's a separate issue. What Bedouinism does do is put you in control of where and when you work.

And remember: Giving yourself the ability to know when business e-mail and calls come in also tells you when they don't come in. With the right e-mail system, all important e-mails can be sent to your handheld device 24/7.
Now, if your e-mail doesn't "ring" over the weekend, you can relax with the knowledge the worlds not going to end Monday morning. If you do get mail over the weekend, you have choices - Ignore it until Monday or if it's important enough, reply immediately.
In either case, you get maximum peace of mind. That's better than ignorance and the worry that "the" message is sat for days unread.

Have more fun

Here's the best reason to become a Bedouin: It's fun. Let's face it: to spend your life working in an office is practically one step up from cattle on the quality of life scale. I'd much rather work at my dining room table, at the beach or -- what the heck -- at a San Francisco coffeehouse with the rest of my tribe.
You spend one third of your waking life at work. Why spend a minute more than necessary in an environment where nobody wants to be? The good news is that the path to Bedouinism is cheaper, easier and more readily available than ever before, thanks to leaps in technology in mobile hardware, software and services.

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