Hey everyone, Vancouver Radio, episode number 322.

Oh my God, O.M. G, if you were to put it on a text message, I'm excited about today.

I'm excited about today because I believe what I'm going to tell you could dramatically

improve your mental health and the reason why I wanted to do this show is because I've noticed

this problem in myself and if I've noticed it and I consider myself a very

mentally strong person a very driven person I'm someone is able to easily motivate and inspire myself and have

reasons to do the things that I want to do. And if I'm noticing it and I've got great boundaries

with my health, with my fitness, with my mindset, where are other people?

So I believe this is an issue.

And this issue is our mental health, our current technological environment, the social media landscape, and that thing that lives

in our pocket every day, which is our mobile phone, and the chances are you are listening

to this podcast via your mobile phone

there's a high chance of that. So research now shows that we are on our mobile phone

two hours a day on social media. Now that's quite an alarming

statistic. If I mean imagine if I was to say to you right don't do anything sit

still go on your phone for two hours, and just, you know, sit scanning through Facebook, etc.

And the chances are you'd think, man, that sounds boring.

But the thing is, is the mobile phone is now an interruptor. It's now a stopgap for those moments where we're like,

oh, I'm not doing anything, I'll look on my phone. So every moment in our day where time is still, for a bus waiting for the kettle to boil

you're between meetings like anything you get out your phone you check your

email your social media all that kind of stuff and the thing is is it develops a habit that every silent moment in our lives has to be filled

with this mobile phone and I want you to ask yourself the question is that a healthy habit because part of our

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