Thursday, September 29, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The average person touches their phone almost 350 times a day, that\u2019s once every four minutes! It may seem harmless to take a work call, when you\u2019re on the beach with your family. It may seem harmless to text someone else, when you\u2019re at dinner with others. It may seem like no big deal to have a Zoom meeting for work, when you\u2019re visiting family during your so-called vacation. A \u201charmless\u201d glance at the phone while driving has fooled many who have lost their lives. Is always being connected fooling you too?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you\u2019re old enough to remember when there was nothing to do but be with your friends, to play outside, or to just read a good book, you remember a simpler time. We\u2019ve lost our ability to meander, to explore, to make up games, or to sit still. We don\u2019t write hand-written notes, we don\u2019t snuggle up with a good book. We don\u2019t spend time together because we\u2019re too busy being \u201cconnected\u201d to God knows what.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We\u2019ll probably have to disconnect in order to reconnect to what matters. What matters takes time and it always has – that hasn\u2019t changed. What matters will probably require you to slow down, and to put down the phone. What matters will be old-fashioned togetherness, mind-wandering creativity, and undistracted bliss. Shared time; play time; a long meandering walk; an out-of-the blue phone call just to say, \u201cI love you;\u201d or a handwritten note. How simple is that? Reality still matters. Spend some time with it, it\u2019s not lost. Presence is real. You don\u2019t have to always be \u201con call.\u201d Always being connected isn\u2019t as harmless as you think. Give yourself a chance to be \u201cbored.\u201d It\u2019s what people did for centuries before they had phones, and look at how much they came up with in spite of it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Thursday, September 29, 2022 The average person touches their phone almost 350 times a day, that\u2019s once every four minutes! It may seem harmless to take a work call, when you\u2019re on the beach with your family. It may seem harmless to text someone else, when you\u2019re at dinner with others. It may seem like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1105,1106,1107,1108,1109],"class_list":["post-2217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-morning-motivation","tag-am-i-addicted-to-my-phone","tag-how-can-i-connect-with-people","tag-how-many-hours-is-phone-addiction","tag-why-am-i-becoming-addicted-to-my-phone","tag-why-am-i-getting-bored-so-easily"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymorningmotivator.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymorningmotivator.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymorningmotivator.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymorningmotivator.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymorningmotivator.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mymorningmotivator.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2218,"href":"https:\/\/mymorningmotivator.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217\/revisions\/2218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymorningmotivator.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymorningmotivator.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymorningmotivator.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}