It’s the end of December 2020 when I start thinking about my relationship with my phone. The previous two years were dominated by being pregnant, becoming a mom of twins and witnessing the world trying to wrap their head around the covid-business. I was honestly too busy wrapping diapers in the most efficient way to fit as many of them in the diaper-bin.
There is much to say about how becoming parents can influence the relationship with your phone but I wasn’t there yet. I was just happy that by the end of 2020 I felt I could finally breathe a bit after two full-on crazy years. There was some space for envisioning life beyond my new role as a mom, self-improvement and new goals. The kinda stuff I used to do all the time before motherhood.
How did my phone become a game changer?
In asking myself the big questions like: what is sabotaging you to live up to your full potential, I could hear this little voice whispering: your phone Rachida, your phooone. But I ignored it because really how impactful can one little slick device really be? How did my phone all of a sudden become a game changer in the negative sense? Also, have I not known super productive and super aligned phases of life while having a phone? What changed?
I had heard a million times that motherhood would change everything. I didn’t quite expect it to trigger the way I looked at my phone-habits…
I had no clue where this train of thoughts was going to take me but a seed was planted.
Rachida –