After programming my phone for the evening black and white, I noticed that there was a game on my phone that I had become addicted in. I didn’t play it in the evening anymore because I needed the colors to play it. But I still played it during the day more than I wanted to.

I have no issue with playing games on my phone as long as it is not taking away from living my life fully.

In this case, that game was using too much real estate in my days… I didn’t want to delete the game because I had reached really high levels and I enjoyed the difficulty. So I programmed my phone to go to black and white as soon as I opened the game app. I could turn the programming off but since I did not know yet how to turn it off, it would put enough in the way of playing this game and I was able to stop. I didn’t even try because I would remember that my screen would turn to black and white so there was no point in even opening the app.

This was another act of self love for me as it helped me be more in control of where I choose to spend my time. I also get to look at why do I feel like pulling up my phone and playing this game. And I replaced it with taking some deeper breath.

In the evenings where I don’t go upstairs at 8 pm, I find myself still doing things on my phone. Since the phone is known to affect the quality of sleep, I would prefer to be someone who puts my phone down at a certain time at night.

I read an article that offered a brilliant idea: program your phone to go to black and white at a specific time every night.

So I did (using instructions found on YouTube after 8 pm one night😊).

My phone now automatically turns to black and white at 8pm every day. I have been able to put it down more since then.

I didn’t realize at the time, but now I see this as an act of self-love.

What can you do to support yourself in letting go of your distraction just a little bit?

I have been inspired to write again about my journey in self-love.

I am an early riser. I love getting up early. But I also like to keep going in the evening so I would be left with frustration of not getting up early enough for my liking or not enough sleep.

So I made a pact with myself to go upstairs to start my bedtime routine at 8pm. It is more time than I need to get myself ready for bed for 9 pm, but it signals my body and my brain nicely that we are in wind downtime. I didn’t realize until recently that the decision is an act of self-love that I practice every single day.

Some days, I stay up / downstairs longer and on those days, I use self-love to accept what is and accept doing my best.

Where in your life can you bring in self-love to accept yourself as you are?