Welcome to this month's edition of the Nancy Ray Book Club, where I choose 12 books to read in a year,

and I invite you to join me in reading them, and then I share my takeaways in the book of the month every month.

You can always sign up or simply see what I'm reading over at Nancyray.com slash book club.

I released a podcast episode about them once a month, and this month I am thrilled to be

talking about digital minimalism by Cal Newport. Our use of social media is crazy. It's out of

control. It's addictive. It's unhealthy. And yet it's a very real part of our lives. We have got to learn how to live with it and not just

live with it, but to live well with it, which in a big part means limiting it. Digital minimalism is an

answer to this daily, sometimes hourly struggle that we all face and feel. And honestly, I'm really excited about

this episode. I'm excited to dive in to my three big takeaways from digital minimalism.

You're listening to Work and Play with Nancy Ray, episode 88.

Much of our daily lives can be divided into two categories, work and play.

Simply put, that is where our life and our legacy take place.

This is a podcast all about learning to work and play well,

which leads to a healthy soul and a fulfilling life. Listen in.

I don't know if you feel this, but we have lost control of our digital lives. Smartphones and social

media have literally changed the way that we live. It seems I can't wait in line at

the grocery store, wait at a stoplight, lay in bed, or just watch my kids at a park without

reaching down to grab my phone. It has rewired our brains. It's crazy. And you might be one of

those people that don't have social media listening to this podcast. And if that's you,

you might not understand a lot of what I'm going to say today. But I feel like most of us

have some form of social media and we understand that it's just crazy addictive.

As the social critic Lawrence Scott put it, a moment can feel strangely flat if it exists solely

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