I’m really impressed with your clarity and understanding of recovery. “We either answer to the chaos (thereby ensuring it continues) or we embody the peace of being in charge of our own experience. It’s one or the other and we get to choose. But we can’t get to the peace until we recognize and accept that we don’t rail against the phone or the booze or the drug or the substance. We rail against the choice.” I feel like your words will help me. I have reduced use of FB a great deal, much preferring the community and writing here. I have never posted on other platforms hardly at all. However, I read Cal Newport’s Deep Work and found it super helpful. I recognize in my own life and in our culture the way phones distract and rob us of time. Your clarity and way of thinking this through is valuable. Thank you. I like the idea of just not using the phone first thing each day. That’s a great starting point, and in one way I think intermittent fasting ideas would help. I want to more fully reclaim my focus and break free of the habits.
Love Cal Newport and Deep Work! Thank you so much, Susan, for such a thoughtful comment. You are so right - even just not using the phone first thing in the morning consistently trains our brains to not 'grab.' It's a tough one. I'm so grateful you found this piece useful! Wishing you all the very best. :)
Absolutely love this!
I’m so grateful you love this Bella! Thanks so much for reading and letting me know. :)
I’m really impressed with your clarity and understanding of recovery. “We either answer to the chaos (thereby ensuring it continues) or we embody the peace of being in charge of our own experience. It’s one or the other and we get to choose. But we can’t get to the peace until we recognize and accept that we don’t rail against the phone or the booze or the drug or the substance. We rail against the choice.” I feel like your words will help me. I have reduced use of FB a great deal, much preferring the community and writing here. I have never posted on other platforms hardly at all. However, I read Cal Newport’s Deep Work and found it super helpful. I recognize in my own life and in our culture the way phones distract and rob us of time. Your clarity and way of thinking this through is valuable. Thank you. I like the idea of just not using the phone first thing each day. That’s a great starting point, and in one way I think intermittent fasting ideas would help. I want to more fully reclaim my focus and break free of the habits.
Love Cal Newport and Deep Work! Thank you so much, Susan, for such a thoughtful comment. You are so right - even just not using the phone first thing in the morning consistently trains our brains to not 'grab.' It's a tough one. I'm so grateful you found this piece useful! Wishing you all the very best. :)
Thank you!
So good. And so good for you. Well done keep it up. The mornings—ahhhh ☺️
Thank you, Dee. You have made me smile! :) The mornings are the sweetest…. Ahhhh for sure. :)