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.