Alternatives to Impulse Phone-Checking
For those pockets of time we surrender to our devices.
1. Smile at a stranger
2. Notice your surroundings / externally meditate
3. Notice yourself / internally meditate
4. Do absolutely nothing at all
5. Touch something
6. Contemplate your day and, by extension, your life
7. Call or text someone
8. Walk
9. Stretch
10. Drink some water
11. Journal
12. Listen to music / a podcast / an audiobook
13. Clean something
14. Breathe
15. Dance
16. Nap (if appropriate)
17. Create a story from the day’s events (a nod to Storyworthy by Matthew Dicks)
18. Notice
19. Notice
20. Notice