147. Intentional phone habits and boundaries, using your phone ON PURPOSE

Simple on Purpose | Intentional Living and Parenting

Would you like to be more intentional with how you use your phone? Do you want to set boundaries and take back control of what your relationship with your phone looks like? In this episode, I have tips on how to do all of this, and I share my own personal phone boundaries that you might like to try too. Make sure to get the worksheets to help you create your own plan for creating intentional phone habits. Follow up to the last episode on the phone habits and addictions that are made on autopilot. Do you have a motivation for changing your current phone habits? What do you want more of? Less of? If you want to understand your current phone habits, get the worksheets from the last episode right here. In this episode we cover: What we are trying to GET from our phones, what we turn to them for. Getting our needs met in REAL LIFE and not just by our phones How to be intentional with your phone Setting boundaries with how you use your phone I share my own personal phone limits and challenges that help me be intentional and accountable with my phone habits Being intentional with your time OFF of your phone as well Challenging the autopilot habits you have created with your phone Challenging the cultural phone habits we accept as the status quo Changing your mind about what you think about your phone Challenging the sense of urgency you get from your phone Being uncomfortable as you learn not to rely on your phone Doing the work of practising new and more intentional phone habits Get the worksheets to help you set intentional phone habits for yourself This episode has worksheets to help you explore this topic and make an action plan for yourself. Get the worksheets right here. Links mentioned in this episode: Episode 146 Understanding your autopilot phone habits Episode 77. Why you need a day of BEING, and take rest from the DOING When I Instagrammed My Own Life, and Not My Kids The Moms30for30 challenge The next episode will come out in two weeks. In the meantime, make sure to stay connected through: The Simple Saturdays email (sign up here) Simple on Purpose on Instagram Share something in the closed Facebook group (join here, make sure to answer the entry questions) FULL TRANSCRIPT (unedited) 0:11 Today we are following up on the last episode. And in the last episode we talked about, maybe if you feel like you have a bit of a phone addiction or some unhealthy phone habits, understanding how those habits are made, and they're really made on autopilot. And now we have this relationship to our phone and how we use it and the habits we have, that are just reflexes. They're just on autopilot, and really stepping back to challenge them and understand them and decide what we want to do about it. 0:38 So today, we're going to talk about what you want your relationship with your phone to be like, what kind of phone habits do you want? What kind of boundaries Do you want to set. 0:46 And it is kind of funny to be recording this today, because I have been on my phone almost double my usual amount lately. And that is because of what's happening around me right now I live in Southern BC, we were hit by massive floods. And these floods just come in and they do all this damage. And we're left with roads that are washed out. So groceries can't come in with gas lines that are out. So we're out of heat, we're out of hot water, the water isn't safe to drink, it's contaminated. sewer systems are struggling, power's out kids are home. And this is just the state that we're in. 1:22 And so for me being on my phone and being connected and reading updates, reading, what's what's happening, can I use the water, all of these little details, it shows us how valuable technology is, it's so valuable. 1:36 But still, even in times like this even in emergencies in crisis situations.