How to Gain Control of Your Device — It’s Your Choice
Phones, Boredom, Creativity and Mindfulness — Wait, What?!
I think that right after exercising more, unplugged is the most common New Year’s resolution for 2019. But as opposed to stop showing up at the gym by March, I would like to help you with sticking to unplugging and building a healthy relationship with technology. It’s not so far fetched, despite the statistics.
Yes, the number are not at our favor…
- We view our smartphones more often than ever before, on average 52 times per day.
- Us adults spend between 3 to 5 hours on our phone EVERY DAY.
- 40% of us would rather lose our voices for a day than lose the phone for 24 hours.
I’m sure you are not surprised, but what should surprise you is that most of the time we spend on our phone is not by choice but by manipulation, manipulation designed by the app companies to get us coming back to engage in their creation as often as possible. This is done by creating a habit. Good habits for the app companies, bad habits for us.
I want to pause here and say that it is a bad habit for us only if we do not CHOOSE that action.
