Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning,
Speaker 1: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's
Speaker 1: tip is to not waste your life on your phone.
Speaker 1: Use your phone when you need to, of course, but
Speaker 1: beyond the basics, I am guessing you have much more
Speaker 1: meaningful ways to spend your time. So you may remember
Speaker 1: that in January I led a group of thousands of
Speaker 1: people through a challenge where we all tracked our time
Speaker 1: for a week. Some of these time trackers told me
Speaker 1: about their experiences and let me know what they discovered.
Speaker 1: For instance, one person who felt she spent too much
Speaker 1: time scrolling through headlines and social media told me that
Speaker 1: I can do better. Time is so valuable and I
Speaker 1: won't waste my life on my phone. I really appreciated
Speaker 1: that statement. I mean, of course, time is a valuable
Speaker 1: but you will note that she didn't say she didn't
Speaker 1: want to waste time on her phone. She said she
Speaker 1: wouldn't waste her life on her phone. Focusing on life
Speaker 1: rather than time raises the stakes. What you do with
Speaker 1: five minutes here and there just doesn't seem like a
Speaker 1: big deal. But your life, I mean, life is all
Speaker 1: we have of course, our lives are made up of time,
Speaker 1: and how we spend our time is how we spend
Speaker 1: our lives. Wasting time is wasting life, but we don't
Speaker 1: usually acknowledge that. Maybe we should. If you are trying
Speaker 1: to reduce your phone use, you too might consider how
Speaker 1: you want to spend your life instead of just how
Speaker 1: you want to spend the next forty five minutes. You
Speaker 1: might start with my time tracker's mantra, I won't waste
Speaker 1: my life on my phone. Then you can add in
Speaker 1: an intention about how you do want to spend your life,
Speaker 1: like my life is about spending time with the people
Speaker 1: I love, or my life is about bringing joy to others,
Speaker 1: or my life is about making the world a more
Speaker 1: just place. Then when you find yourself scrolling around on
Speaker 1: social media or reading alarming headlines, cleaning out your podcast
Speaker 1: queue playing snood, remind yourself what you want to do
Speaker 1: with your life is what you are doing right now,
Speaker 1: helping to make the world a more just place, or
Speaker 1: bringing joy to others, or increasing the chances that you
Speaker 1: spend time with the people you love. Maybe it is
Speaker 1: always possible that it is, but maybe not. And if
Speaker 1: that is the case, then maybe that reminder will help
Speaker 1: you decide to spend the next few minutes on activities
Speaker 1: beyond simply passing time until the next thing. You could
Speaker 1: even change the wallpaper on your phone to remind yourself
Speaker 1: of your intention for your life. That way, every time
Speaker 1: you are about to check in on that argument on
Speaker 1: Twitter and maybe even fan the flames a little, you
Speaker 1: are reminded that you want to bring joy to others.
Speaker 1: In any case, time is precious. Little bits of time
Speaker 1: might not seem like much, but they do add up,
Speaker 1: just like change in the couch cushions adds up. Each
Speaker 1: bit isn't much, but in the end end it doesn't
Speaker 1: feel right just to burn it all. Best to harness
Speaker 1: that time for something else rather than waste your life
Speaker 1: on your phone. You live your life with the phone
Speaker 1: just as a tool to help you along in the meantime.
Speaker 1: This is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making
Speaker 1: the most of our time. Hey, everybody, I'd love to
Speaker 1: hear from you. You can send me your tips, your questions,
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