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Mission 9 of 16

Digital Wellness

📋 What it is

Digital wellness is using screens on YOUR terms — apps are designed to grab attention, so you set the limits.

🗣️ Coach says

Apps are built by teams whose job is to keep you scrolling — endless feeds, pings, streaks. Knowing that flips the power back to you: turn off non-essential notifications, keep the phone out of reach while working, and choose WHEN to check, not letting the app choose. It is not weakness to be pulled in — the design is doing that on purpose.

🧠 Memory hook

Apps are DESIGNED to grab you. Take the controls: notifications off, phone away, YOU choose when.

😂 Giggle

I tried to multitask, but my brain filed a complaint with HR for overwork.

😲 Whoa!

Endless-scroll feeds have no "bottom" on purpose — a natural stopping point would let you put the phone down.

✅ Quick check: Why is it so hard to stop scrolling a feed?

Say your answer out loud first — then reveal.

🧪 Try it! (2 minutes)

Turn off notifications for one app tonight and notice how many fewer times you reach for your phone.

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🤸 Brain break: Look-away reset: every screen break, look at something 20 feet away for 20 seconds.