Leave it in another room if you have to. For a while during my freshman year of college, I would actually plug my phone up downstairs by my front door, which happened to be the farthest location from my bedroom that my phone could be in my apartment. This made looking at my phone first thing in the morning impossible and made it much easier to choose a better first engagement for the day.
“It is okay to own a technology, what is not okay is to be owned by technology.”― Abhijit Naskar, Mucize Insan: When The World is Family
Oftentimes, we plug in our phones right next to our heads. As a result, it becomes the first thing that’s what we look at and engage with, often before we’ve greeted our loved ones, worked on something important to us, or had a thought of our own. It’s no wonder we get to the end of our days, weeks, and years and wonder why we didn’t accomplish our goals or make a meaningful contribution to the world — we were too busy scrolling social media or answering notifications we didn’t really care about in the first place.
While I certainly wouldn’t recommend getting rid of your phone and technology altogether, we have to set reasonable boundaries with our tech to make it work best for us and our mission. So my recommendation? Don’t let your phone be the first thing you engage with each day. Try a book, a conversation, or a pretty sunset.
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