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Healthy Tips: Stop Scrolling: Set Down Your Phone

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Too much screen time can negatively impact your wellness, whether you’re on social media or not. Scrolling on your phone (no matter what you’re doing) can negatively impact your everyday life — especially at night. Mobile phones emit a blue light that causes problems by affecting your sleep and potentially your eyesight with constant exposure. Source

Note: You ever ride by a school bus pickup stop and see the kids waiting for the bus? What are they doing? Are they talking with one another? From my experience, if there are 10 kids waiting for the bus they’re not engaged with each other. They are all staring at their phones and they are strangers to the people standing next to them. How do we learn to engage in meaningful conversations if we don’t participate in meaningful conversations? How do learn to understand one another if we are not in personal communication? Meaningful conversations is important to our mental health.

Thinking Out Loud ~ What Thoughts Dominate Your Day?

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Our Thoughts Lead to Our Actions

James Allen in his book, “A particular train of thought persisted in, be it good or bad, cannot fail to produce its results on the character and circumstances. A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.” P. 28

As a Man Thinketh is available online at gutenberg.org under the Harvard Classics.

NOTE: Today, carry a  notebook with you and once every hour write down the dominant thought that you were thinking about over the past hour. At the end of the day take a tally and see what thoughts dominated your day. Did your dominant thoughts direct your conversations? Did your dominant thoughts direct your actions? If your conversations and your actions are not what you wanted or not bringing you the results you want, both personally and professionally, we have a great lesson here, we can choose to think about something else. We can choose to think about things that are uplifting, inspiring, and elevate us and others.

Something to Think About

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What’s for dinner? How many times have you asked that question? Dinner is the time and place when we gather with those close to us and share a meal. The day is over, dinner marks the transition from work to relaxation. What we eat at dinner is important; however, it may not be as important as the conversations that take place around the table. When we sit at the dinner table we have an opportunity to learn about each other’s day. We have the opportunity to share our journey.  The conversation may be about the day’s work or it may be about politics. Wherever the dinner conversation leads, it offers the opportunity to bring people closer together. 

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