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Thiago Avelino

plan for the future (where you want to be) and live in the present moment

I usually remove as many applications as possible from my phone that make me anxious, that make me get in the loop of opening and closing any application without doing anything, e.g:
Sunday afternoon I have nothing to do (in reality I don't want to do anything), I would open instagram and scroll the feed, after a few minutes I would close it, I would open twitter and scroll the feed, after a few minutes I would close it and open the email client and I had nothing, I would go back in an infinite loop until I realized I was anxious.

Today I have no email, twitter, linkedin and other apps on my cell phone, "never" used to do something really useful that brought me expressive results. I can't remember the last time I answered a serious email on my cell phone, most of the time the cell phone email client was a trigger to go to the laptop to answer - again making me anxious.