{"id":22997,"date":"2021-10-17T12:38:49","date_gmt":"2021-10-17T12:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/versionx.bronwynrusso.com\/?p=22997"},"modified":"2024-07-11T12:39:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T12:39:12","slug":"twenty-four-six-24-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versionx.bronwynrusso.com\/?p=22997","title":{"rendered":"Twenty-four-six (24\/6)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Hello from me in 2022 (and in hope it isn\u2019t another 2020×2)! I trust\u00a0this new year has started off bright for you \u2026 and if it hasn\u2019t don\u2019t despair. May today\u2019s newsletter ignite a spark to start \u2013 not only on the 1st<\/sup>\u00a0of January or on a dreaded Monday \u2013 but any day. Every day is a new opportunity to begin again.<\/p>\n

The new year can bring about its own pressures as the external world bombards us with prompts to set goals and resolutions. With that, we either begin to frantically write the long list of goals (it is amazing how many goals we can come up with since we are carrying over 10 years of unmet targets) or we retreat due to it all feeling too much.<\/p>\n

It is the reason I choose instead to come up with a theme for the year as a place to begin. Just a word that highlights my intention to assist keeping in alignment with my true internal desires and motivations. This way I can measure any goals, actions, choices throughout the year against the year\u2019s theme and assess whether they help propel me toward or away from that intention. Below, in this month\u2019s challenge, I have attached some theme options from Big Life Journal to get you working on what your theme might be. Often the largest barrier to achieving the life we want is due to not making the time to reflect and connect with ourselves. You can only see what\u2019s in the water when it\u2019s still. Stillness allows us to see what\u2019s inside.<\/p>\n

This leads me into the inspiration for this newsletter which came from my last month\u2019s read – \u201c24\/6: The power of unplugging one day a week\u201d by American film maker and author Tiffany Shlain. She describes how we devour tech and calls it \u2018digital obesity\u2019. Because we can do anything at any time we are doing everything at every time. Ceo of Netflix, Reed Hastings, was asked what his biggest competition was and he said sleep! How many of us binge on Netflix and deprive ourselves of the rest we need to be productive, energized and positive the next day (my hands up!)? Technology is good and bad and neither and all in between \u2013 just like us. Smart phones are the latest extension of our brains literally in our hands. We may not have created the iPhone or the internet but we do have the power to choose how we will use it. Dr Michael Rich from Harvard Medical School finds the term addiction unhelpful as it creates the illusion that we can abstain from it. Instead, he states that technology is like food – we need to use it and thus rather sees it as similar to binge-eating. You need to eat however managing your eating so it is healthy is about self-regulation.<\/p>\n

24\/6 suggests unplugging from tech for 24 hours one day a week – to create the mental space in this fast moving, overstimulating world, to process and reflect, and therefore choose well. I know the thought of it likely makes you cringe at how impossible it sounds, however consider instead what you might gain if you weren\u2019t glued to a screen. What might you spend time doing that you just don\u2019t do enough?<\/p>\n

I\u2019m in for the challenge and I hope you are too!\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Science\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>on tech\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>(there is so much –\u00a0I did my best to only grab a few):\n<\/div>\n
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  • A Neilsen study showed people check their phones on average 80 times a day which equates to every 12 minutes in waking hours. For Millenials it is double that at 150 times a day.<\/li>\n
  • It takes 23 minutes to recover from a distraction.<\/li>\n
  • A further study found that clicking links and liking other people\u2019s content reduced their physical and emotional well-being and life satisfaction significantly.<\/li>\n
  • Gaming disorder has become a real disorder where there are clinics specifically for this.<\/li>\n
  • Brain scans show that we exhibit the same brain impulses when online as we would when taking drugs. Clicking creates the same neural loops narcotics do.<\/li>\n
  • A lack of empathy and internet addiction are closely linked.<\/li>\n
  • Doctors who spend more time on medical software burn out more quickly.<\/li>\n
  • Taking time out and resting is shown to improve memory \u2013 giving it a chance to recalibrate.<\/li>\n
  • A study showed that people who took one day off lived 10 years longer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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    This month\u2019s challenge:<\/em><\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n
    \nTake some time out to consider your theme for this year. What is a word that can guide you, hold you accountable and enhance paying attention to what will add value to your life.<\/div>\n
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    Supercharge the challenge:<\/em><\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n

    \nAccept the 24\/6 challenge and feel free to let me know how it goes.<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Hello from me in 2022 (and in hope it isn\u2019t another 2020×2)! I trust\u00a0this new year has started off bright for you \u2026 and if it hasn\u2019t don\u2019t despair. May today\u2019s newsletter ignite a spark to start \u2013 not only on the 1st\u00a0of January or on a dreaded Monday \u2013 but any day. Every day…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conscious-living"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versionx.bronwynrusso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22997"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versionx.bronwynrusso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versionx.bronwynrusso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versionx.bronwynrusso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versionx.bronwynrusso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/versionx.bronwynrusso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23000,"href":"https:\/\/versionx.bronwynrusso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22997\/revisions\/23000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versionx.bronwynrusso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versionx.bronwynrusso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versionx.bronwynrusso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versionx.bronwynrusso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}