Better Ways to Relax After Work

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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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0:27.4	at Dr. Laura.com.
0:29.1	An article that was written by Jessica Stillman, let me see where it was in ink.com, INC.
0:39.9	Seven better ways to relax after work than mindlessly scrolling on your phone.
0:46.4	Do you know how many hours a day, a week?
0:51.8	You spend mindlessly scrolling, Facebook, Instagram, mindlessly scrolling, seeing tidbits of all kinds of things.
1:01.3	Do you know how often you do that?
1:04.0	Hours and hours.
1:05.2	It could be six hours in a day.
1:07.5	You get up in the middle of night, late at night, when you first get up in the morning, don't get out of bed, lunch break, it adds up.
1:18.2	So this article, so there's a big problem with that approach to relaxing after work. Namely, it ultimately
1:30.3	does not make you feel better. Wow. Okay. So it's a sad way, she writes, to spend so many
1:40.7	hours of a precious life.
1:49.3	When you put it that way, it really stops you in your path, doesn't?
1:50.9	You're wasting life.
1:53.4	You're not just wasting time.
1:56.8	You're wasting life.
2:02.6	There are people in hospitals struggling to hang on for another day, a month, a year, and you are wasting it mindlessly scrolling.
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