There is a habit that changes (completely) my mood every morning. I will admit that it has not been easy for me to turn this simple gesture into a habit, but when I do it I notice that my well-being improves remarkably. Is about Don’t look at your phone until I finish my first routines of the dayThat is, until I do some exercise and take a shower. In fact, sometimes I try to do the improved version of this trick and not look at the phone until I leave the house to keep the counter at zero. technostress either techfatigue as much as possible (yes, the stress and anxiety that new technologies generate in us already has a name and, according to the II Adecco Observatory on emotional well-being and psychosocial factors, 62% of companies consider that this stress is already having a significant impact To their workers).
The best way to summarize the reason for this habit was heard from the mouth of kourtney kardashian in a conversation with Gwyneth Paltrow to Goop in which he said that looking at the mobile when getting up – which implies, therefore, looking at social networks, emails and various notifications– “It’s like they fill your bedroom with things”. It seems to me a wonderful metaphor: looking at the mobile without having almost gotten out of bed means entering a kind of intrusive stimuli flea market which is not good for emotional well-being first thing in the morning. It is an abrupt way of awakening the brain and the organism and sends a negative message that goes against our peace of mind. In fact, Tristan Harris, former Google designer, explained it this way: “When we wake up in the morning, look at the phone and see a list of notifications, the experience of waking up in the morning is framed around a menu of all the things i’ve missed since yesterday”.
A kind of FOMO or fear of missing out on something that, for me in particular, made me start the day off on the wrong foot, because it triggered my brain abruptly with an endless task list of things to do that overwhelmed and blocked me in equal measure. It was activated in my mind open windows syndrome, that is, that feeling of having many tasks at the same time but without actually completing any of them. Because I start thinking (at the same time) about all the things I have to do without coming up with solutions for any of them. This placed me halfway between anxiety and unproductiveness because most of those tasks couldn’t be done in the shower or while doing a barré exercise.
To this (unnecessary) stress we must also add the time that was lost and that made me arrive late for work and re-enter a vicious cycle of stress/anger/blockage. Long ago the expert in order Alice Iglesias He told me that when he looks at his cell phone in the morning you can lose between 15 or 20 minutes in reviewing things that are not important. Or that they still are -I’m saying this-, but they can’t be solved in your pajamas from bed. In order to avoid the temptation to look at it, it is best to leave the mobile outside the room and return to the alarm clock of a lifetime. But if we still want to pull the alarm from the phone, it is also highly recommended to choose the tone correctly so that this awakening is as less abrupt as possible. That’s why Kourtney Kardashian says he uses the ringtone of your iPhone. Because waking up to the subtle sound of an imaginary world also helps to face the day in another way.
