Realizing she needed to make changes that reoriented her brain from distraction-based impulses and toward periods of deep, sustained focus, Rebecca Ruiz shares her story and five tech habits to help us feel more in control and energized.
Spend chunks of the day, even three-minute bursts, without your phone or device. To truly reorient the brain toward quiet and stillness, you need quiet and stillness.” Rebecca Ruiz
Source: Mashable, December 15, 2021. Link. Ruiz references work by Doreen Dodgen-Magee, Psy.D., who suggests using “spotting points.” A spotting point is a value, goal, or role (like parent, friend) we use to steady ourselves and correct our worst online impulses.
INSIGHTS: No doubt many of us can relate to our tech devices seemingly controlling our time and lives. It’s tell-tale that Dodgen-Magee references adapting an acronym used in 12-step recovery programs known as HALT (Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired) to introduce pauses during tech use.
Like fire drills in grade school, maybe we need to set up HALT drills for our employee groups two or more times per day.” – Kirk Augustine