Heart to Heart Screen Time Talk. EP: 143

Best Laid Plans

Sarah Hart-Unger

Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Sarah brings her honest thoughts about screen time to this heart-to-heart episode. First, she shares two valuable listener perspectives: 1) Rachel in Wales, who spent a month without a smartphone and was converted permanently: http://www.rachelinwales.com/2022/10/analogue-august-month-or-14-without.html 2) Leslie, a self-described "mid/later-life" yogi who always has thoughtful perspectives on all things planning-adjacent Then, she delves into her own thoughts, from screen time as a spectrum (from angry social media battles to instructional YouTube) to its insidious slot-machine-like temptations and tendency to crowd out the rest of life if we let it. This is a passionate episode! Please share your thoughts and comments (nicely, please!) Email: [email protected] Voice questions: https://www.speakpipe.com/bestlaidplans Send me a text or voice memo - (305) 697-7189 Do something IRL and learn about Best Laid Plans LIVE in South Florida: https://theshubox.com/blpa Sign up for my newsletter: https://theshubox.com/newsletter Leave me a review if you can (Apple Podcasts Link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/best-laid-plans/id1525311647) Episode Sponsor: PrepDish: Healthy and strategic meal planning! From SHU: I LOVE not having to create a menu every week, and the prep instructions make getting dinner on the table each night easy. We use PrepDish almost every week (the Super Fast menu)! Visit PrepDish.com/plans for your first 2 weeks, FREE. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to best laid plans.
0:11.3	This is your host Sarah Hart Unger and this is the podcast where we talk all things planning
0:15.2	and planning adjacent.
0:17.0	This is a little bit of a planning adjacent topic, but it's one that is near and dear to my heart
0:22.0	and that I've wanted to discuss for quite a while now. It is all about screen time in its many
0:28.9	forms. Screen time obviously means a whole lot of different things from the screens we stare at
0:33.8	at work to the screen time that is more voluntary when we might be sitting with our
0:38.1	phones scrolling, maybe even listening to a podcast while you, I don't know, double device
0:42.9	playing a game or something like that. Screen time is multidimensional and there is no question
0:48.3	that it impacts all of our lives and that things would be different if we didn't spend the
0:53.3	amount of time we currently
0:54.2	spend on screens. I personally think that is probably more bad than good, although I love
1:00.0	certain things that devices with screens do for me. And in fact, I probably couldn't be recording
1:03.9	this episode right now if it was not for the use of my podcasting app, which certainly requires
1:08.9	a screen. So I'm not a leadite who wishes
1:11.3	it's 1993 in that many ways. And yet in some ways I am. And we'll get to that in this episode.
1:17.0	But first I'm going to share some perspectives from listeners who wrote to me. And the first one is a
1:21.9	very detailed account that comes from a listener named Rachel, who has a blog called Rachel in Wales. And I'm going to
1:30.0	read her account pretty much verbatim because I thought it was fascinating and meant a lot to me
1:35.7	reading it. All right. Here we go. Rachel says, Hi, I'm not sure if I'm too late to contribute
1:42.0	to your screen time episode, but I changed my
1:44.3	screen time massively starting in 2020. In 2021, I did an analog August where I quit all social
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