 Hey learners welcome back to Lauren learns today I want to talk to you about how I'm learning to break up with my phone if you haven't already subscribed But you've been watching these videos. Please. Please. Please subscribe. It would really help me grow this channel and learn more about Editing and media and all these things that I'm trying to do with simultaneously Simultaneously by having a YouTube channel is also my goal this year to produce more media than I consume So I don't know if that like Is sustainable We're gonna try it out and I'm still committed to a hundred videos and blog posts at www.lorenlearns.org If you haven't already started going there, please go check it out It's been a lot of fun learning how to write even because I'm not in college. I don't have to do it It's just fun breaking up with my phone. I've done a lot of research over the last couple weeks and I realized Likes for a piper likes for a piper. She's so funny. She likes sits everywhere. I'm working just comes to sit and so tip number one is use airplane mode and That's pretty self-explanatory. Then you're not getting the barrage of texts and phone calls and Ring your dingers all day long while you're trying to get stuff done piper seriously Just come over here. Okay, so tip number two Leave your phone in your car. That could be another option if you're going out and you're not ready to like Completely disengaged from your phone for long periods of time, but maybe just having it available Just not on hand tip number three Turning off all your notifications or really really utilizing that do not disturb mode Dnd as I like to call it. I put that on from about 8 p.m. To 6 a.m Well, I'm sleeping. That's no phone calls. No text. No nothing Ain't no one calling me in the middle of the night. And if you are I'm sorry. I'm asleep The other point of that would be during the day. I only leave my ringer on So I leave like another do not disturb setting going with just my ringer because my son's at school and The texts and emails and all those things they just wait until I get to them I've decided like I I decide where my attention goes and right now I feel like it's more important to focus on my kids and my family and giving the people in front of me my attention So if you ever text me and I don't answer, sorry, that's probably why tip number four delete apps That you don't otherwise use or that create a lot of dead space in your life If Facebook or Instagram or a problem for you, I say delete them And I have started doing all of my social media on my laptop And I find this really works for me because then I intentionally come to my laptop space And I do all the things I got to do and I leave it there. I'm not like walking around on Instagram Number five Number five Find a replacement hobby I really like this one and I've found that I guess I've kind of already been doing it in the last year or so But I really come to enjoy reading I used to hate reading because it was like mandatory for school and But I've really I joined a book club and I have all this extra time now to read and I'm excited to like up my reading goal for 2019 But yeah, find something you enjoy to do make a cup of coffee make some tea knit You don't have to be on your phone if you don't want to be. Yeah, that's fair, right? Tip number six my personal favorites One of my personal favorites from all of these is live your life on purpose We only get one of these guys you gotta you gotta live intentionally You gotta live your time the way you want to live it have boundaries That was a life-changing book for me by the way I need to do another video on that because once I learned about having boundaries for myself and my time and What I want out of my life It just was a game-changer and I could decide where my time goes and where my attention goes and it kind of sounds selfish But actually in the book it talks about it's not selfishness. It's stewardship You are taking care of what of your God given time and that's important for us to to manage and To not waste it away just because we're bored or tired like let's live life on purpose Shall we that's been one of my favorites and I I'm excited to continue to learn that into 2019 and use all these tips and tricks if you have any other tips and tricks for your phone usage and how you Manage your time on that please comment in the comments below and like I said if you haven't already subscribed Please please help me grow this channel. I'm so excited to be doing this It's been kind of an interesting little journey and I'm gonna continue until I get to that hundred and like I said I'll reevaluate then but in the meantime. Thank you so much for watching and following this channel As always go get messy have fun learn and I'll see you next time