Elaine said this morning, "So, what do I have to do to be less lazy?"
"Take a media fast?" I suggested.
"No way!" was her immediate response.
Elaine has been exploring the power of media fasting for some time and is planning to write her capstone project on it to complete her masters.
This media fast will last today (Monday) through Friday. It will include social media, games and tv. We will exclude phone calls, text, email and projects related to school and work.
We turned our phones to do-not-disturb mode, and made sure to allow phone calls, but found this still allowed notifications from our games and so forth to get through so we had to shut some of those off manually. The badge icons drive me nuts (the little numbers on the apps that shows notifications are waiting.) I had to turn those off for a few things too so I wouldn't be tempted to check them.
Perhaps the fast would be easier to accomplish and more effective if we just put our phones away, but that experiment will have to wait for another time.
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