Be Honest About Your Phone, Learn How to Die, Seek a Calling, and Living Your Truth

Want to Stop Mindlessly Scrolling Your Stupid Phone? Try This.

Your phone is making your life shorter.

Learn how to change your relationship with your phone. You might conquer the world. You'll certainly set yourself up for success in your relationship, productivity, quality of work, and mental health.

Sadly, many of us, myself included, have accepted this "scrolling" pandemic and the consequences it plays in our lives.

We're addicted to every feeling that the phone provides.

• Emails help us feel needed.

• Social media likes make us feel important.

• News entertains our boredom, even when irrelevant to our daily lives.

• We've convinced ourselves we are "learning" or "hustling" even though we are further cluttering our minds and sanity.

Great news! There's a really simple and easy way out of this unhealthy thief or our lives.

Step 1: Be honest and accept it's an unproductive and unhealthy relationship!

Would you want to keep hanging out if you considered the phone a friend?

You've left toxic friends behind in the past. Moved on from relationships that became a burden. Imagine treating your phone the same way and the benefits it would provide.

Step 2: Set boundaries and stick to them!

Who's in charge?

Our phones are a part of our lives—there's no getting around that. But too many people have zero rules with their phones. Start with setting two specific hours; you will not look at your phone.

Step 3: Designate a nice home for it to spend some time outside of your hand!

You don't have to throw your phone in a lake to teach it who the boss is and give yourself a break.

Leave it in your car in the evenings or put it in your briefcase when you come home from work. Weave a nice cozy basket with your newfound spare time to keep it in while you live your life. Just designate somewhere, anywhere, for that toxic devil to spend some away from you.

What are your life-saving phone limiting techniques?

This Week's Book Recommendation:

Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom

Back in November of 2020, I lost a dear friend in my life.  Not just any friend, or the friend you find as an adult.  This was the friend that I met in Kindergarten, played basketball with my whole life, lost our mothers in the same year, forced into adulthood, best man at my wedding, kind of friend. 

It was painful, to say the least.  It broke my heart...

If you've had a friend like that you understand. 

About 5 years before this he recommended Tuesdays With Morrie.  On the day of his funeral, I noticed this book on my bookshelf. 

Tuesdays With Morrie is like having a conversation with your wise old grandpa who understands life to its core, and has touched death to not fear it, but appreciate life and its meaning. 

Here's Morrie's response, when Mitch asked him if he feared dying:

“The truth is, Mitch," he said, "once you learn how to die, you learn how to live”

Later, Mitch asks "But everyone knows someone who had died...Why is it so hard to think about dying?"

"Because, most of us all walk around as if we're sleepwalking.  We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do."

If you've ever suffered a loss in your life you don't see this as morbid.  None of us will make it out of this place alive.  Learning how to die isn't morbid, it's a beautiful way to live your life knowing how special each breath is.

Love your people, live with purpose, and see life for what it truly is...a single life experience and one not to be taken for granted.

A Cool Quote:

This is a great line from one of my favorite books of all time, Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight:

"Seek a calling.  Even if you don't know what that means, seek it.  If you're following your calling, the fatigue will be easier to bear, the disappointments will be fuel, the highs will be like nothing you've ever felt." — Phil Knight

A question I'm thinking about:

What activity makes you feel as though you are most living your truth?

Have a great week, talk next Tuesday!