"When you wake up first thing, the ideal is to wake up and spend a little bit of time within your own mind before you're bombarded with everything else in the world that's going on. (Pexels)Īs our use of mobile phones continues to grow (a 2018 report by Deloitte found that American smartphone users check their phones 14 billion times a day, up from 9 billion in the same report from 2016), wellness experts say it is having a negative impact our morning routines. READ MORE: Why can't you sleep when you know you have to wake up early Jessica, not pictured here, made the switch from alarm clock to phone about 10 years ago. And that's when the luxury of waking up without notifications ended, and the misery of glancing at them in the middle of the night when I checked the time on my phone began. Why don't I? I probably didn't even know I could at the time.īut I succumbed to peer pressure and did away with my old clock. "Why don't you use your phone!" Oh, I thought. "You use an actual alarm clock?" they asked, as though it was a fax machine. I made the switch from alarm clock to phone about 10 years ago after I told someone what I thought was a funny story about how my alarm clock had once gone off in my suitcase while in the trunk of a taxi, forcing us to pull over so I could retrieve it. READ MORE: Sleep doctor reveals how you can train yourself to get up earlier Changing habits Pertinently, it wasn't filling my mind with chatter, bad news and deadlines before the day had begun. Its design would have paled in comparison to the latest iPhones, but it did its one job very well its punctuating and shrill screech was effective at waking me up every morning.
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