scrolling and smoking seem to be your worst habits and the habits that you are most interested in breaking

this morning i asked on instagram what is a habit you are trying to break and or a habit you

are trying to begin overwhelming it was smoking you are trying to begin. Overwhelming. It was smoking and scrolling.

Thankfully, I don't have an issue with smoking. I can't speak on that. I bought a vape once.

I think it died before I finished it. Scrolling, however, I can most definitely speak on.

As someone who loves the internet, someone who loves social media, how do you find balance?

What is your screen time? Are you happy with it? Can you decrease it? My screen time right now,

I think it's like four and a half hours a day. And I thought that was high. I was having a

conversation with my friend about that. I'm like, I think a happy place, three and a half hours.

I think I can handle that.

And maybe I could add on a bit of time if I knew that it was in use for work. You can see on

your screen time where that space is going. And I can tell if it has Instagram, for instance,

if I was editing something on there, if I was getting a reel up for a brand, if I was using my story versus there's definitely times I'm on Instagram a lot and I'm not doing anything. I'm doom scrolling. And I was having this conversation with a friend. And her response was, oh, I don't even think my screen time's that high. And then I said mine being four and a half hours. And she's like, wait a second. I don't know. My screen time is seven or eight hours a day. And it was. And that's so many hours of our day. What are we doing? And I'm not holier than now. I think maybe four and a half hours is good. Comparatively speaking. Does that feel good though? No, not necessarily. And as I said, there's

time and place, but clearly you wouldn't be saying this in the question box if you felt like

your amount of screen time was being put to good use. It was time spent wisely. It was worthwhile.

No, no, no. We're talking about doom scrolling. We're talking about scrolling for hours before bed, scrolling for hours first thing in the morning. How do we do it? Now, they say not to go on your phone first thing. If I don't have an appointment that I need to arrive to by a certain time, whether that be career-related, maybe a doctor's appointment, a workout

class, if I don't have to have boots on the ground somewhere, I find that the blue light on my

phone is the only way that I am waking up and getting out of bed unless my stomach is

growling. I will not find energy to get up any earlier than I have to unless I'm

scrolling. I use the blue light to get up. And that being said, is not great for your brain. I did

have an app that I was using for a minute there. And I almost started paying for it, but then I found

it to be a little bit frustrating. And I thought, I'm not even sure if it's working, didn't pay for it, free trial

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