What Would Happen If You Purposefully Forget Your Phone At home?

Today, tomorrow, this week? I may just keel over and die.

I know, the scariest thought ever right? Why on earth would I want to purposefully forget my phone at home?

Well, maybe to live a little instead of going through the mindless motions of scrolling down, refreshing, swiping right and posting another selfie. Maybe to actually get some work done at work.

To go into meetings with a notebook and pen, where you will have to think before writing anything down, instead of having the app open, and doing everything but taking notes.

There will be nothing stopping you from chipping away at your to-do list and getting to 16h30 and realising you have actually accomplished them all.
But again, a scary thought. I can’t live without my phone. Have you tried? Just for one day. Just for one day tell yourself that this is sh#t scary, but I am going to do it anyway.

“Feel the fear and do it anyway.”

If you’ve ever struggled with weight loss or a sugar addiction you know the feeling. There is always this mountain in front of you. You just don’t see any way past it.

“The thing that is hard is the thing that you must do.”

Michelle, you are making it sound like I am deciding on which house to buy, or who to marry. One of those VID (very important decisions). It’s just a phone. Yeah, one that rules your life.

No, I don’t think it’s that bad. I don’t think I am that attached. Prove it by leaving your phone at home tomorrow. And not just leaving it, but forgetting that it ever existed.

All you’ll be thinking about all day are those calls, messages and notifications you are missing. To help you along and to make sure you don’t have an anxiety attack half way through the day, tell your partner, best friend or your mom of your intention to leave your phone at home.

If it’s life threatening (it never is), your mom will call. Let’s take it a step further, when you get home this will be the order of events. Put your bag down, make yourself some tea, put the chicken in the oven, check that the kids have done their homework and then, only then can you peep at your phone.

In this case, if you’ve missed anything life-threatening, at least you are sitting down.

We all need some time out to reflect on what’s important and what adds value and to strip away the layers of nothingness. It is imperative in today’s ever busy, always-on world.

Let your competition be only with yourself. To be a better version of you today than you were yesterday. In order to do that you need to let go. Let go of everything that is not serving you.

It will be hard in the beginning, but like everything else, it becomes easier.
They say you have to try something for 30 days for it to become a habit.

In a perfect world. One day is one day.