Hello welcome back to another video in today's video and diving into
Digital detox out a few of the ways that you can sort of get offline in a sense and avoid technology
So hopefully today's video will be useful
Let me know in the comments what you think and let's dive in so of course
We all know we are living in a pretty busy world these days. It's pretty manic and there are so many
Technologies around that and screens around that gets sometimes very freaky
So this video was actually recommended to me by Omni Patwa in the Facebook group, so
kudos to him before the shout outs
And I managed to get around to doing this one
So hopefully by then this video will give you a few insights in a few ways to
Take digital stuff out of your daily routine we talked about a lot of digital stuff on this channel
And of course we don't want to recommend necessarily a radical weekend away without technology, which does sound good
But we want to give you a few like routines and habits that you can implement without
Technology to help you de-stress and reduce any anxiety, so let's get started number one is taking a walk now
This is a super simple one that you can do straightaway my recommendation is to if you're in the workplace or even at home
To grab five minutes make yourself a cup of tea and walk around the block and now whether you've got local park nearby
It makes it even better
But it just gets you out, and don't necessarily take your headphones either with you now
I tend to do this probably like two or three times a week and look a bit crazy with my cup of tea
But I walk around a block around the park at the local one
and it will just give me a bit of time to pause and
Maybe keep away from my screen now
I bring my keys would be but maybe not my phone just so I can get away from it for a while and it just
Helps me to reconnect not necessarily with nature because it's not much nature about but with sort of like you know
Just away from the screen so the second tip would be to schedule in book time of course
scheduling includes a digital resource
But getting time to actually do and read
It is very very important so for example if you have maybe an hour long lunch
Maybe cut it in half and take a bit of time out in the afternoon
It during your workplace to do 5-10 minutes of reading this pause will give you so much back in a day
So maybe it's something you need to consider the three is
Related to sort of physical resources again a physical journal or notebook is quite a handy experience to have now personally
I have a really nice journal, and then a bring around will be on my daily routine
and I just sort of get moments to write in it during my day where there's a short little and treat from me of my
musings of the day or whether it's like me plotting out ideas or plans or
Whatever it is. It just gives me a pause. Oh, no you don't even have to do it for that
You can just use it for projects or planning or work
But it's just a nice way to take yourself away from the screen number four is no
notifications on your iOS device or Mac now
This is something that you've been doing for a quite a while now about maybe two years ago
I pretty much turned off all notifications on my iOS device apart from the major ones like phone
Messages and a couple of other of them, and I'm super do not disturb mode
Which is annoying several people?
Who are trying to contact me?
But it just gives me a break from the amount of notifications coming through
And actually having this has helped me in to reduce a bit of screen time too and so for example
I'll put my phone away from me during the day of course. It could this can totally backfire like the other day
I kept my phone away from me for my first hour of the day
And I got three or four calls from Beckett to say that she
Was locked that house, and I have to give come back here and let it back it, but you know what I mean you know
this actually can be a really beneficial way to do it especially when you're trying to reduce an
overload on your digital devices
Number five is something that I've been doing for about a year is keeping my phone away from my bed of course
I still keep it in the same room because it is still my alarm, which I could probably change and get a physical alarm
But the phones being next on bed is actually in real distraction so for example. Let's see one night
I can't sleep which isn't a problem actually because I don't know
But if them if it's nearby you sort of want to grab and you'll sort of there and it can be pretty distracting
But actually keeping it by keep it on the counter away from me, which has two benefits
It keeps it away from me
And not if I want to go and reach out in the night and get it
And number two it actually allows me to get out of bed in the morning for my alarm. Which is quite nice
So that's just it a little bit of a tip, but sort of still includes a digital tool number six is no headphone walks
I started doing like two or three of these in a week
I love listening to music on way to work and even podcasters, but of course sometimes
It's nice to just get away from that so when when I'm walking back or when I'm walking in
This could be great for commuters
I tend to just take out my headphones and put them in my pocket or bag
And it just gives me a bit of like nice walking experience. I can just draw things around me like the traffic or you?
Know just things in the daily routine like so it's just a nice little hack
For point you on your way home number. Seven is improved or longer sleep now. This is sort of like a micro thing
I've been adding like an extra hour to my sleep at the last maybe
Month or so and it's actually really had a lot of impact like I feel less tired
More energetic and the quality of my tasks tend to be completed better
Um and actually keeps me away from screaming extra hours, so I guess this is announced digital detox tip
But just consider sleep as a genuine resource I tend to
Give I'd I'm bad for is weld is considering less sleep as you know weaker or something
But actually it can be very beneficial, and I want to read a lot of books about sleep
So if there's one that is on my listicle called why we sleep
Which is actually probably the rank of highly on that list and the final tip for digital detox is
Reducing your use of the word busy
I started doing this mouth three years ago now and I say busy a lot less than I did then
Sometimes busy can be used out of context you can be busy
Doing something in the moment or you can be busy doing a day
But for example week to week a lot of people say they're busy
But you know you can amp like an adjective in front of it like super busy or extremely busy
But again it. You know it all comes down to you are being busy, and it's sort of like a word
That's thrown about these so I try and avoid it best. I can it was actually a really beneficial tip
I didn't why I started doing I think I must have written Tim Ferriss bloggers
I mean, but actually just doing that has helped me to reduce a lot of stress
I know the guys I hoped they'd enjoyed some of those deep detoxed hips again some of them cluded digital stuff
But let me know in the comments of what you thought of them, and whether you have any tips for everyone else in this community
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