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Before Breakfast

Don't waste your life on your phone

Before Breakfast

iHeartPodcasts

Education, Self-improvement

4.51.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Mindless minutes still matter

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0:00.0

Deep in the mountains of Greece, the country's most-wanted man has been on the run for over a decade.

0:07.0

He's a bank robber, a kid napper, but to many Greeks, he's a hero.

0:13.7

His name is Vasili Spaliokostas, and we're on the trail of the man behind the men, a modern-day Robin Hood

0:20.3

who steals from the rich and gives to the poor.

0:22.9

A Miles Gray, listen to the Good Thief on the I Heart Radio app Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:30.0

Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

0:38.0

Good morning.

0:41.0

This is Laura.

0:43.0

Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.

0:47.0

Today's tip is to not waste your life on your phone.

0:53.0

Use your phone when you need to, of course.

0:57.0

But beyond the basics, I'm guessing you have much more meaningful ways to spend your time.

1:05.0

So you may remember that in January, I let a group of thousands of people through a challenge, where we all tracked our time for a week.

1:15.0

Some of these time trackers told me about their experiences and let me know what they discovered.

1:22.0

For instance, one person who felt she spent too much time scrolling through headlines in social media told me that I can do better.

1:32.0

Time is so valuable and I won't waste my life on my phone.

1:40.0

I really appreciated that statement. I mean, of course time is a valuable, but you will note that she didn't say she didn't want to waste time on her phone.

1:51.0

She said she wouldn't waste her life on her phone.

1:55.0

Focusing on life rather than time raises the stakes.

2:00.0

What you do with five minutes here and there just doesn't seem like a big deal.

2:05.0

But your life, I mean, life is all we have.

2:10.0

Of course, our lives are made up of time and how we spend our time is how we spend our lives.

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