I just finished reading a book called Digital Minimalism. I was pretty happy with it. I wanted to come to peace with not wanting to spend as much time on my phone, and this book seemed to get me in a direction that I’d be happy with. When I started the book I was averaging more than 5 hours on my phone a day. I also worked full time.

I’m supposed to work 8 hours a day, then I had 5 hours on my phone a day and then throw in sleeping and time with family, my day is done. Between work and my phone, that is a little more than 1/2 the total day. And then sleep (11pm - 5:45 am). That’s about 20 hours of my day where I’m not actively focused on my family or myself. I can’t change sleep that much. I have a lot more control over the first 2 (work and phone). I’m not working 8 hours a day. I’m usually at the office for 9 hours a day, but I’m not working that whole time.

I have been known to play on my phone while at the office from time to time. So if I limit the amount of time on my phone at the office, I might not even have to be at the office for 9 hours a day. I don’t have a time quota to meet. I have a work quota to meet. So if I can get the work done, it doesn’t matter how much or how little I work.

I also spend a lot of time on the phone after I put my son to be and before I go to bed. So that’s from about 9 to 11 PM. If I can cut that out and spend that time reading books, then I could read about 50 pages of a book. Average book being around 250 pages, then I could read 3 new books every month just from that extra found time.

#Running improvements

By cutting phone time after I put my son to bed, I can get about 2 hours a day of my life.

Places to cut phone use

I’ve been cutting my phone use by doing some little times like deleting high usage apps off my phone. Goodbye Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Reddit