turn off, tune in

 

I do several things to prevent myself from going overboard:

• make sure that I finish my work or tasks on hand first before indulging on binging shows, doom scrolling, texting/dming, or writing blog posts. 
• if I’m out with friends or on a date, I don’t look at my phone.  It’s just bad etiquette.  For people who are parents or caretakers, I’d understand them checking up on the fam but other than that…fuck it.
• I have my phone on DND at 2300.  The only people whose calls or texts that bypass it are my immediate family.

At work, that’s something that can’t be helped, everything is all through an electronic health record so I won’t count that as “screen time”.