Do you walk and scroll on your phone at the same time?
Do you ever reach for your phone for no reason just to keep from getting bored? You’re not alone. On average, we look at our phones 1,500 times per week with an average of about 177 minutes every day. Most of us have obsessive relationships with our digital appendages. We feel compelled to feed our online followers. We are devout in our commitment to stay up-to-the-minute on all of the latest activities in our newsfeeds. We feel left out if we’re not jumping on every new trend. This is a time to take a moment, to press pause, to scream, “WAIT!” Somewhere along the way, we lost control. We gave ourselves to the dark side of technology and were fooled into living a semblance of the life we once treasured.
With a renewed mindset and perspective, we can master these incredible gifts of technology to live a better life. We can master these tools and our time to prioritize what really matters in our world and in the worlds of those we care about. We can then embrace the inevitable duality of living parallel digital and physical lives with a conscious purpose that unlocks new levels of contentment, possibilities and passion while also inspiring those around us.