Wake up. Check phone. Read (yet another) sad/disturbing/off-putting news story. And then expect to have a great day... NOT!
I've written a lot about the importance of starting our day on the "right foot," as they say. What we do in the morning sets us up mentally, physically, and spiritually for the rest of the day. So if we start on our screens, we're even more likely to continue on them, sometimes to the exclusion of everything and everyone else around us. We can find ourselves obsessing over what's happening "out there" on social media or the latest gossip story... and when we do look up, we're all too often seeking gratification in other forms of excess as well.
We can snap our fingers and get pretty much anything (think Amazon: order today, get it today!). We have endless food and drink choices (What will it be? Your usual vanilla latte? Or would you prefer our new Pumpkin-Spice-Candy-Apple Americano?). And, no matter what we have, we always seem to want more.
The fact is, we're all a little (or a lot) addicted. But why?