I had gotten into the habit of checking my phone right before bed.
Sometimes it was only supposed to be for a minute, but it usually turned into more scrolling than I planned. I would check one message, then one app, then one video, and before I knew it, the quiet part of the evening had disappeared.
So I tried one simple change for 7 days:
No phone during the hour before bed. The hardest part was not the rule itself. It was realizing how automatic the habit had become.
Here’s what happened.
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