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No phone or screen usage for 1 hour after I wake up.
I haven't broken the addiction completely, but it's progress.
Oh shit, that's a really good one. I hate that I instinctually grab my phone and start doom scrolling. Getting rid of Twitter was a big one that helped for me.
When smartphones were new, I started dating a girl who would roll over in bed first thing in the morning, pick up her phone, and start scrolling. I thought it was incredibly weird. Why not life? Why computer? Now, I do the same thing, and it's normal. Or rather it was until a couple of weeks ago.
The scary thing is that I'll start to get antsy as the one-hour mark comes near. I'll keep checking the clock for when I can pick it up and get my stimulation. So far it is working most days, though, and it feels like it improves the rest of the day for me.
I always feel like I'm going to miss something important, but honestly, there is nothing important happening that I can't just hear from someone else. I really want to get to the point where I wake up, throw on some clothes, and go for a walk and leave my phone at home. I think if I can do this through the fall and winter, I can do it forever.
You can run down some of the clock by making yourself a good breakfast every morning! My wife got into a real tamagoyaki kick and I've been making her one pretty much every day and it makes me pretty happy to be cooking again.
Locking my account helped me cut down my Twitter usage a lot by making it pointless to reply in most cases.
I just found myself picking fights with locals on the opposite side of the political spectrum and it got bad enough that my handle was named in two different defamation lawsuits. ๐คท. Luckily decent opsec made me harder to find IRL, but both cases were laughed out of court anyway.
Lol wow.
Iโm going into withdrawal just thinking about that.