Turn Your Phone Off

When is the last time you powered down. All the way down. Not asleep. Not in airplane mode but ON/OFF. Try it with me now. Take your phone out, if you're not already playing with it, and turn it off. Fair warning, you will experience a short stint of anxiety and emptiness and confusion which is all very common. These mobile withdrawals are unpleasant (and slightly pathetic) but the sobering and liberating experience is worth more than your hopeless attempt to beat the 357th level of Candy Crush. I promise. Now lets have a chat. First off, when was the last time you had a conversation with a friend that was there in person without taking your phone out or even thinking about your emails and upcoming video conferences. I thought so. So here are some tips: first of all keep the phone in your pocket and I can assure you that it will take some practice. Secondly, you do not need all those apps, trust me. So just delete them. Also buy yourself a watch and actually use it. Set boundaries such as no phones in the bedroom or bathroom. I hope those are fairly self explanatory. We have more computing power in our pocket than that necessary to put the first man on the moon. Seriously. Think about that for a second.