Video: Small ways to give up your phone at least once a day

Here's a scenario: Your phone wakes you up, puts you to sleep and is with you nearly every minute in between. And you'd like that to change.

Sound familiar? Watch for ideas on how you can remind yourself to take a break from your phone every day.

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Small ways to give up your phone at least once a day

Try this: Exercise phone-free. Racquetball. Yoga class. Basketball. Engage all your senses and leave the phone in your gym bag.

Try this: Enjoy something lovely (without posting!). Shooting paintings in the gallery makes them less memorable later. Be present.

Try this: Power off at the table. Even on silent, a phone is an unconscious distraction.

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