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Have you looked at people waiting in a line lately?
They’re all checking their phones.
There’s nothing inherently wrong with this, but it’s definitely not an intentional use of your phone.
So I made a concerted effort to stop doing this and found the value in it far outweighs whatever I got from checking my phone while in line.
By following this rule, I send a message to myself that I’m in control of my attention as opposed to ceding it to my phone any time I’ve got a moment to spare.
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I believe in the value of “getting lost on the internet” and continue to do so.
But now, when I pick up my phone to do some random surfing I set an end point for the journey before I begin.
For example, when I decide to browse Twitter, I might also decide to do so for just 20 minutes....
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I set out to change my phone habits by creating a simple set of rules to limit the negative and amplify the positive impacts of when and how I use my phone.
I didn’t take a “digital detox” and completely abandon social media for a brief period of time because that feels more like a ...
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I never really checked my phone while driving because that’s super dangerous (and you should definitely stop that whether you try out these rules or not), but with this rule I also outlawed checking it at stoplights, in heavy traffic, or any time I was in my car.
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It may seem harmless to check your phone during a commercial, but I realized that’s not the case.
Because when I picked up my phone during a commercial, I’d rarely put it back down when the show came back on.
Once I turned my attention to my email or social feed, it quickly captured i...
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A funny thing happened when I sat down to watch TV (or do anything) and knew I wasn’t going to use my phone during that time —I realized I didn’t even need to have my phone near me.
When I watch TV now, I keep my phone on a table across the room so I’m never tempted to pick it up.
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I turn off all notifications on my phone — there are no dings when someone likes my tweet or sends me an email.
Notifications are poison. If you enable them, you’re asking your phone to interrupt you.
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If the first thing I do when I wake up and the last thing I do before going to sleep is to check my phone, what kind of message does that send to my brain about the role of my phone in my life?
One of the simplest things I did to switch up my phone habits was to create a buffer zone— in the...
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After I post this article, I’m going to be tempted to check and see whether people like and share it over the next hour or two. The same is true for anything I post on social media.
To counteract this pull, I made it a rule to log off after posting something and not check my phone f...
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One of the reasons I don’t like the concept of a full digital detox is because it’s an all-or-nothing scenario and I don’t believe that’s how you ultimately create positive, lasting change.
My effort to be more intentional with my phone hasn’t been perfect, but it has helped me start to mak...
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