5 Ways Your Phone Screws Up Your Life & What to Do When Your Whole World Falls Apart

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCastMedia

Education, Social Sciences, Self-improvement, Science, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 29 March 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

If you have a big decision to make, wait until you have to go to the bathroom. I begin this episode by explaining why a full bladder helps make better decisions. (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110228163141.htm) Do you control your phone or does your phone control you? It seems we can’t live without a cellphone for more than a few minutes. But what if you actually tried? What if it actually made things better? Catherine Price has taken a critical look at our relationship to smartphones in her book, How to Break Up With your Phone (https://amzn.to/2IbpViD). For more information go to www.PhoneBreakUp.com And for a free copy of Catherine’s audio book version, go to www.Audible.com/something and start a free trial with Audible and you get one free book to download and keep even if you cancel your subscription. Did you know that Cheerios were once considered an unapproved drug by the FDA? And do you know how many varieties of Cheerios there are? (Hint: More than 12) Those are just a few of the many fascinating things I discuss about this iconic breakfast cereal. (http://www.thedailymeal.com/eat/5-things-you-didn-t-know-about-cheerios) So what do you do when your whole life fall apart? Of course you hope it never happens but life has a way of dishing up some pretty tough times to all of us at some point. Daphne Rose Kingma, author of the book, The 10 Things to Do When Your Life Falls Apart (https://amzn.to/2IcSYma) reveals the secrets of getting through those horrible times so that life gets good once again. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today on something you should know, to make a really good solid, efficient decision,
0:07.8	you just might want to wait until your bladder is full.
0:11.0	I'll explain why.
0:12.7	Then if your cell phone is controlling your life, maybe it's time you two broke up.
0:17.6	Just to clarify, the point of breaking up with your phone is not to throw your phone out.
0:20.8	It's to go from a successive relationship where you sleep with your phone, you can't
0:24.7	be without it for more than five minutes about craving your phone to go to be friends with
0:29.0	your phone.
0:29.9	Then did you know that Cheerios were once considered an unapproved drug?
0:34.9	And since it's likely to happen to everyone at some point, what do you do when your world
0:40.0	falls apart?
0:41.2	The very first one is you cry your heart out.
0:44.3	Most people when terrible things happen instead of feeling that they need to grieve over
0:49.2	it.
0:50.2	Just want to take control, wish it didn't happen.
0:52.4	And we live in a culture that has really deprived us of our cheer.
0:56.8	Call this today on something you should know.
0:59.8	Something you should know.
1:04.1	Fascinating intel.
1:05.4	The world's top experts and practical advice you can use in your life today.
1:11.9	Something you should know with my carothers.
1:16.6	Did you know that hamsters are nocturnal?
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