Day 2: Breaking up with my phone addiction

*I will be following the 30 day recommendations by Catherine Price in "How to Break Up with your phone". You can buy it HERE, get it for free on Audible with a 30 day trial HERE, or get it from your local library.

Task 1: What do I love about my phone?

I love being able to look things up, being able to find directions. I love that I can call people from anywhere, and I love being able to Facetime my parents while they're in New Zealand. I love being able to take pictures and videos with it and I love seeing what friends and family are up to.

Task 2: What don't I love about my phone?

I don't like that there are times when I start looking at ti and then all of a sudden I've wasted so much time on it. I don't like that I feel weird when I leave it home or that I always have it in my sights. I don't like that sometimes I glance at it when I'm with people. I don't like that I feel like I have to respond right away when someone texts me and that I feel like I want people to do the same for when I text them. 

Task 3: What changes, positive or negative, when I spend a lot of time on my phone?

When I spend a lot of time on my phone, I can tell that I'm way less productive. I can tell that my attention span sucks and that I feel the need to constantly be looking at something on my phone. I don't do silence well without something else going on.

Task 4: Do you notice any changes from when you got a smart phone to begin with?

I definitely have a shorter attention span. I also have let a lot of activities that I love kind of go by the wayside because I waste so much time on social media and on the black hole of looking things up on the internet. 

Task 5: Imagine yourself a month from now at the end of the breakup. What would you like your new relationship with your phone to look like? What would you have liked to have done or accomplished with your extra time? What would you like someone to say if they had to describe how you'd changed? 

My new relationship would mean that I only have my phone in my hand for phone calls, texts, and checking social media a couple times a week.

I want to sing more, improve my spiritual relationship, get healthier (meal planning and enjoying outdoor and active activities), read more, and start learning to write songs. 

I want the people around me to notice that I'm more present, more eloquent, more thoughtful, and someone who DOES life. I want to be someone that other people think, "How does she do all of that?" and the reason to be that I use my time on being active in life instead of wasting it on my phone. 

Task 6: Write your future self an email or note describing what success would look like or congratulating yourself on achieving it. 

Dear future Angela,

Congratulations!! You successfully went through the break up with your phone! Since then you've been singing more, enjoying the outdoors more, you've made more/closer friends and spent more time with old friends, and you've even been learning songwriting. Super cool huh? Plus you've read the book for the neighborhood book club and were actually able to focus while you read. You're able to leave your phone now and you only check social media a couple times a week. You feel more confident, remember things better, are enjoying life more, and you've actually been thinking on a way deeper level.