Hey friend,
I feel a little embarrassed to admit this, but I am pretty sure I used to be addicted to my phone.
I was constantly checking my social media and my email. It felt like my brain was always 'on' and I was always working.
I was mentally drained. And, to top it off, I started noticing how much my phone was negatively affecting my ability to be present and engaged with my husband and kids.
When I thought about who I wanted to be in my life, this was not what I had imagined.
I have an exercise I lead my clients through when we first start working together.
I'll ask them who they want to BE in their lives. Who the future version of themselves is. How do they imagine she is showing up to her life?
We get super detailed because this is the best roadmap to get you from where you are today to where you want to be.
This future version of yourself or this ideal/ dream version of you will show you exactly what habits you need to create and which ones to drop.
So often, we end up striving tirelessly to become that version of ourselves so we can finally take our foot off the pedal not even realizing that we won't ever get there by striving.
When I looked at that version of myself, she would not be on her phone all the time. She would not be working all the time.
She would be present + engaged in her life. She would feel calm and at ease.
This meant, I needed to start practicing and implementing that now.
I did this by setting some simple boundaries around my phone.