Hi and welcome back to the Carol Markowitz show on IHeartRadio.

It's the middle of January and if I made resolutions I would maybe feel like they've all fallen apart already.

But the thing about resolutions is that there's really no particular time when you really need to start them.

This is a podcast about better living. And when I ask guests about a life tip they can offer,

and I think it's a good one, I try to implement it right away. I mean, a guest said that Megan

Dowell, she said that she recommends getting your car detailed. I got it detailed

a few days later and she was right. I felt amazing about it. My car looked brand new. Like a lot of

people, I struggle with screen use. My work is on my laptop. I'm just, I'm on all day. I'm reading

news, looking at X, etc. And I say that,

but I also scroll on Instagram for an hour or two every night before bed. I really don't

use social media during the day, but at night I enjoy these mindless reels that are called.

And I think I have to cut that out.

I'm not sleeping great and there's no particular reason for it.

I just think I'm getting my mind working right before bed and I like there's a word for

it in Russian like it was Gulewit.

Like my, I'm just getting worked up before bed for no reason,

and then my mind won't shut off. And I'm fine in every way, except just can't quite disconnect.

So I think I have to cut that out. My husband used to refer to my pre-bed routine at the start

of our marriage as, and then Twitter, and then Instagram, of our marriage as and then Twitter and then Instagram

and then Facebook and then Twitter one more time. And maybe that wasn't great, checking all the

apps before bed, but at least it was interactive. I was talking to people. I was checking my

mentions. Now I'm just scrolling. In June, I wrote about the fact that kids aren't on social media anymore, not really.

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