📱 Phone addiction is one of the biggest non-drug addiction in human history. 😱
Study shows excessive phone usage leads to poor lifestyle, poor physical health, and poor mental health. 😨
But how to overcome phone addiction? 🤔
Here are a few things I follow:
1. Delete most apps, and ideally disable all notifications or limit to the most basic ones. 📴
2. Schedule a time to check the phone – give as much dedicated time as you want, but don’t check reactively for random notifications. ⏱
3. Keep your phones facing down on a table when meeting friends or at home. 📲
4. Change your habits and routines when you typically use the phone with something else (read books, play chess/sudoku, talk to people). 📖
5. Introspect your phone usage, use self-talk, and keep delaying the urge of checking the phone every few minutes. 💬
Hope this will help you to:
- overcome your phone addiction (come on, accept it you have it)
- reduce your screen time
- build better habits as we kick-start 2021!
Aditya Kothadiya 