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Cold Plunge Thoughts So yesterday I did a phone fast.

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What's a phone fast? Well, it's where I don't use my phone or any other devices throughout the day.

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Saturday night, I put my phone away in my drawer and didn't take it out until

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I went to bed and only to charge it on Sunday night.

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So, why did I do this? Well, number one, I just have felt recently like I'm

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kind of addicted to my phone, and I wanted to change that.

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So I started making some changes.

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That's one thing. There are some other things that I'll talk about probably

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another time, but that was the big one of just putting my phone away for the whole entire day.

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I felt like I was more present, more connected with my family,

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and was doing just better overall.

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One of the things I noticed is that I was wanting to grab my phone for these

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little things here and there.

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And that's definitely part of that addiction, right?

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That I'm feeling like I need it more than I actually do.

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So another piece that was interesting is that I found myself thinking about

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the people that I interact with online more than I feel like I probably should have.

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Like I wondered what so-and-so was thinking about this particular thing that

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was happening that day or something like that.

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What were people saying about the playoff games that were happening?

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I did watch those, by the way, but I didn't tweet during it or get into any

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of my other groups during that.

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So what's my takeaway from this? My biggest takeaway so far is I use my technology for work a lot.

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And how do I balance using it for work and then putting it away when I'm done?

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And it seems silly that as a grown man, I have to worry about this,

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but I definitely do. So that's my big takeaway.

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How's it going to go? We'll see.