S3EP17 Intentional connectivity: why my phone no longer controls me (& how you can take charge, too)

Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers

Angela Watson

Education, Courses

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🗓️ 24 April 2016

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Almost every teacher I talk with feels like it’s impossible to turn off his or her brain at night and rest. Teachers feel like there’s always too much to do, too many things to remember, and not enough time for any of it. Being more intentional about your connectivity habits is the easiest, fastest, most powerful way I can think of to change that.

I finally broke my connectivity addiction after running myself into the ground last summer...and it honestly shocked how simple it was to rewire my brain so that I no longer craved those constant interactions online.

3 basic habits enabled me to make (and maintain) the change. I created these habits by paying attention to when I was tempted to check my phone or go online, and noticing how I felt when I did or didn’t indulge.

And now during the month of May, I want to invite you to join in and do this intentional connectivity challenge together. Let’s stop using our devices to waste time on unintentional breaks and procrastination, and stop allowing them to keep us from fully enjoying and experiencing our lives. We don’t have to settle for a lifetime of feeling controlled by our devices. We can make connectivity into something better, something more intentional, and we can do it together.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Season 3, episode 17 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers.
0:07.0	I'm your host Angela Watson and I'm here to speak life, encouragement, and truth into the minds and hearts of educators and get you energized
0:15.7	for the week ahead. Today I'm going to share some thoughts on intentional
0:19.8	connectivity, why my phone no longer controls me and how you can take charge too.
0:27.0	Visit truth for teachers.com to get the transcript, links to recommended resources, and to share your thoughts on the show.
0:35.0	It's the first thing you do when you wake up.
0:39.0	It's the last thing you do before bed.
0:42.0	And it's the default activity that you fill your time
0:44.8	with all throughout the day. Whenever you're bored, procrastinating, or just want a little
0:50.3	hit of something that makes you feel good. It's what you do when you don't even
0:54.5	know how you feel, but it's been a little while since you've done it, so probably time to do it again.
0:58.7	Yep, I'm talking about checking your phone, and I used to have a serious problem with it. The thing is, I know I'm not alone in that.
1:09.0	A Newsweek article called Is the Internet Making Us crazy, what the new research says?
1:15.0	Sites a survey in which most respondents, with the exception of those over age 50,
1:20.0	check text messages, email, or their social network, quote, all the time or every 15 minutes.
1:29.0	Over and over all day long, we'll scroll through nine boring or depressing posts in order to get to that
1:35.2	tenth one that gives us the laugh or recognition or excitement or just enjoyable interaction that we crave.
1:45.0	Sounds a lot like a gambling addiction doesn't it? Playing the slots and losing over and over again
1:48.0	but holding out for that rare moment
1:50.0	when there's actually a payoff.
1:52.0	The article goes on to explain that we're not so much
1:55.3	choosing to use our devices constantly, but we're feeling compelled to, or quote,
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