Before picking up your smartphone

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

In this article, you will learn what a person should do every morning even before he picks up his smartphone.

Admit it, what do you do in the morning right after you open your eyes?

Yes, here I, too, first of all reach for my phone. What happened there while I was sleeping? Who uploaded the new photos, and how many new likes did they put? What are all these new emails about?

As soon as we pick up our smartphone, it is simply impossible to detach from it. The precious morning minutes pass, during which so many useful things can and should be done, and we are all poking around in the electronic abysses of this little monster.

However, quite recently, I found something much more exciting and useful for myself than a smartphone. In this article, you will learn about what now my hands reach out to in the morning first thing.

My faithful companion, who took the place of a smartphone near my bed, was an ordinary notebook. Plain paper notebook with a pen. In it I write down my "morning pages": dreams, ideas, thoughts, plans. And here are some reasons why I do this.

1. Checking your smartphone in the morning sets you up for reactive perception

You simply react to external impulses, passively absorb information that pours on you from a small screen. You reply to other people's letters, get angry or rejoice at other people's actions, but do nothing yourself.

No, how could they do that to this little giraffe in Denmark?

And when you write something in your notebook, a completely different process occurs. You exhibit proactive behavior, that is, you yourself form and fix new ideas, feelings and actions.

2. Checking your smartphone gets you into a hectic rush

As a result, you are constantly afraid of missing something, being late, or not knowing. Although, in all honesty, tell me, how much useful do you learn after watching your morning Facebook feed?

If I don’t check my feed every five minutes, I’ll miss it. And everything will collapse!

Making notes in a notebook has a completely different effect. You become focused, focused and calm. This is what you need for a good morning.

3. Checking your smartphone changes your perception of reality

Delving into reading the news, you feel that this is what is most important in your life, while the reality around you fades into the background.

How can you think about an overflowing trash can when the world is again troubled?

Personal notes in a notebook remind you of what is really important right now and for you personally.

4. Checking your smartphone makes you ordinary and life is worthless

Every morning you stare at your little screen, the same is done by millions of other human beings around the world. Everyone greedily consumes megabytes of unnecessary information that passes through you without leaving any trace behind.

This day has not been lived in vain: all the news has been read, the cats are laikans, a sfotkan dinner.

A completely different matter is personal notes in a notebook. This is a trace of your thoughts, torments, ups and downs. This is a mold of your life, if you will. Many years ago, when my grandfather died, several notebooks of personal notes were found in his belongings. Turning these pages, I learned more about him than in all the time of personal meetings and conversations. And what will remain after us, an outdated model of a smartphone with a dead battery?

Your personal diary will immediately become precious to your next of kin, in 50 years it will be worthy of a place in a local museum, and in 150 years it will become a historical document. Your smartphone is immediately sent to the trash heap or melted down.

If you are imbued with this text and already want to start writing, then finally listen to one more piece of advice. Most people try to write as much as possible at first, filling out page after page. Then the first fuse passes, and it becomes more and more difficult to maintain the set bar, as a result, the person simply abandons this business.

Therefore, from the very beginning it is worth adhering to the principle "less is more." Start with one sentence every daybut let it be exactly what is important to you.

A good method, by the way, to finally find out.