How much of your day is wasted on your phone?
Smart phones are great tools, but when we lose swathes of time to scrolling, we're no longer the masters of our tools, but slaves.
STOP THE SCROLL & GET BACK IN CHARGE
You don't need to totally give up your phone in order to get back in the driver's seat of how you use your time. Many apps are intentionally structured to keep you scrolling their app, long after you meant to.
Scrolling can easily become an addictive behavior, and we need some dedicated time out of the loop to break the habit and reclaim our time.
What do you scroll?
Sure, social media takes a lot of heat, but all kinds of apps make you want to scroll on an infinite loop.
Real life never looks like the composite of everyone's curated and filtered photos.
See what people are thinking but would never say to your face.
YOUTUBE
Every tutorial under the sun so you can know how but never get started.
Land of outrage.
NEWS
It's all fake news now, anyway, just to keep you in front of their ads.
BROWSER HEADLINES
I was going to search, but now I'm looking at sponsored clickbait headlines.
My inbox is so out of control I can endlessly scroll there, too.
SHOPPING
Maybe a new blouse or a new book is the most urgent problem to solve now.
Meet Mystie.
Mystie is a homeschool mom of 5 with two graduated sons and 3 still being educated at home. She and her husband have been happily married almost 22 years and recently relocated to Idaho. She hosts a blog and several podcasts for Christian homemakers and classical homeschoolers: Simply Convivial, Simplified Organization, and Scholé Sisters.
Although she'd been off Facebook for 10 years, Instagram was still a favorite outlet until 2020. Between the algorithm manipulation, political correctness bullies, and unconstructive non-conversations, she got fed up with Instagram and decided to prove it wasn't necessary, even for a blogger and podcaster. Now that she's been off for 3 years, she realizes that posting and scrolling changed the way she interacted with her real life and she's hooked on being free of the machine.
