5,203 Things to Do Instead of Looking at Your Phone
                        
                     
                                            
                            
                                                                by Barbara Ann Kipfer
                                                                
                                    2020-12-30 02:41:44
                                
                                
                             
                         
                                     
                
                    5,203 Things to Do Instead of Looking at Your Phone
                                            
                                                            by Barbara Ann Kipfer
                                                        
                                2020-12-30 02:41:44
                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                                                It’s time to put down the phone and: visit a botanical garden create a palindrome solve a brainteaser Phone addiction is a modern epidemic. With social media, texting, games, and other apps, it’s far too easy to get sucked into an endless...
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                                                It’s time to put down the phone and: visit a botanical garden create a palindrome solve a brainteaser Phone addiction is a modern epidemic. With social media, texting, games, and other apps, it’s far too easy to get sucked into an endless spiral of scrolling, wasting hours while missing out on life. So why not:
play a board game
 try a breakfast burrito
 focus a day on hearing every sound you can
  
 Barbara Ann Kipfer, author of 14,000 Things to Be Happy About, Self-Meditation, and other books with more than 2 million copies in print, has a great gift for inspiring us to appreciate the little things in life, especially through her obsessive, mesmerizing lists of ideas that surprise and inspire. Bringing that sensibility to an issue we all struggle with—our phones and how they co-opt one of our greatest assets, our attention—5,203 Things to Do Instead of Looking at Your Phone is a quirky compilation that encourages you to put down your phone and do this richer, more interesting, more meaningful and fulfilling thing instead:
  
make shadow puppets
 paint a watercolor at dawn
 notice a beautiful sky
  
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