The average person spends 4 hours a day on their phone, picking it up an astonishing 96 times a day.
I know I’m guilty of this too, so I checked my stats for the past week:
I averaged 4 hours, 33 minutes per day
I averaged 142 pickups per day
I averaged 514 notifications a day
(Some of my caveats: I use my phone for my 2-year old’s baby monitor, we split parenting responsibilities all day so I have to work from my phone a lot, and our house sends us alerts about motion tracking what seems to be if anyone moves within a 4 mile radius, lol. )
Inputs vs Outputs
We may not feel like we are constantly comparing ourselves to others, but we are being barraged by inputs.
Social media, email, pings, notifications, news - a constant stream of someone else’s message, needs, wants, asks. Their outputs become our inputs.
And in turn, it can lead to a feeling of stress, anxiety, overwhelm, and the prevailing demotivating sense that someone else is doing it better, faster, stronger.
What to do?
For now, we can begin to focus on our own outputs.
What are we creating?
What are we contributing to and putting out into the world?
What value are we adding?
This in turn allows us to focus on a few less inputs, and free up time to create more of our own outputs.
Grateful to have you here.
Zach