{"id":206208,"date":"2021-03-19T13:32:49","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T10:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/my-team-experimented-with-no-screen-mornings-it-worked-wonders\/"},"modified":"2021-03-19T13:32:49","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T10:32:49","slug":"my-team-experimented-with-no-screen-mornings-it-worked-wonders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/my-team-experimented-with-no-screen-mornings-it-worked-wonders\/","title":{"rendered":"#My team experimented with \u2018no screen mornings\u2019 \u2014 it worked wonders"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a38f92fe0e8f\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a38f92fe0e8f\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/my-team-experimented-with-no-screen-mornings-it-worked-wonders\/#Little_things_stressed_us_out_less\" >Little things stressed us out less<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/my-team-experimented-with-no-screen-mornings-it-worked-wonders\/#We_were_forced_to_be_intentional\" >We were forced to be intentional<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/my-team-experimented-with-no-screen-mornings-it-worked-wonders\/#Prohibition_isnt_necessarily_the_answer\" >Prohibition isn\u2019t (necessarily) the answer<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/my-team-experimented-with-no-screen-mornings-it-worked-wonders\/#Some_of_us_are_sticking_with_it\" >Some of us are sticking with it<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#My team experimented with \u2018no screen mornings\u2019 \u2014 it worked wonders<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/03\/static-screens-gq-796x417.png\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n                                Want to feel stressed, anxious, and\/or completely exhausted before you even have breakfast? I highly recommend looking at your phone right when you wake up.<\/p>\n<p>I tend to look at Slack, email, and (*sigh*) <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> right after I wake up. But sometimes I wonder if my head would be clearer if I just\u2026 didn\u2019t. So I tried it out \u2014 and asked my coworkers at Zapier to join me.<\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t set hard rules, but I did offer some suggestions.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<strong>Pick a time, then don\u2019t look at your screen until then.<\/strong> I recommended one hour after waking up, but ultimately, you should choose whatever timing makes sense for your mornings.<\/li>\n<li>\n<strong>Think of something else to do instead.<\/strong> Maybe take a walk, maybe do some journaling, maybe make a nice breakfast \u2014 just make sure you have a plan, so you don\u2019t default to picking up your phone.<\/li>\n<li>\n<strong>Don\u2019t use your phone as an alarm.<\/strong> It\u2019s going to be hard not to look at your phone if it\u2019s the first thing you touch in the morning. Consider buying an old-school, actual alarm clock, and charging your phone outside the bedroom.<\/li>\n<li>\n<strong>Delay notifications on your phone.<\/strong> Android and iOS both offer features that delay all notifications until a certain time. If you have to touch your phone in the morning, consider setting this up.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To me, this wasn\u2019t about hard rules \u2014 it was about being intentional. Thinking about our relationship to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a>, then tweaking as necessary. Here\u2019s how it went \u2014 and what we learned.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Little_things_stressed_us_out_less\"><\/span>Little things stressed us out less<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The first thing I learned: looking at my phone first thing in the morning stresses me out. I did not know this.<\/p>\n<p>I thought that cleaning up yesterday\u2019s dishes stressed me out. I thought making breakfast stressed me out. I thought the problem was the tasks; it turns out the problem was time. If I don\u2019t look at screens, I have more time and, therefore, less stress.<\/p>\n<p>Katie Redderson-Lear, integration engineer at Zapier, felt the same way.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Little chores that usually stress me out in the morning because I\u2019m rushing and my attention is split just\u2026 got done? For example, I forgot to put the laundry away last night, the dog\u2019s bowl needed cleaning, and I spilled a glass of water. Most days, these things would stress me out, but today I just dealt with them.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Erin Ozoli\u0146\u0161, senior customer champion at Zapier, noticed that she consistently started her workday on time.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I actually did my morning skincare\/teeth brushing routine, yoga, made oatmeal, and let the dog out before my 7 a.m. start time. Normally, I\u2019d meander into work at 7:15 a.m., annoyed that I was 15 minutes late.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>We\u2019re all losing time in the morning without realizing it. Not looking at our devices, it turns out, is a simple way to get some of it back.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"We_were_forced_to_be_intentional\"><\/span>We were forced to be intentional<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Sometimes I pick up my phone with intention \u2014 that is, knowing what it is I want to do. Maybe it\u2019s the weather, maybe it\u2019s directions, or maybe it\u2019s my to-do list.<\/p>\n<p>More often, though, I pick up my phone for no particular reason and just kinda\u2026 react to stuff. Texts, emails, likes \u2014 I mindlessly check things, sometimes for an embarrassing amount of time. Getting into that reactive mindset first thing in the morning makes it harder for me to focus.<\/p>\n<p>Eileen Ruberto, senior UX researcher at Zapier, said that avoiding her phone in the morning made her think about her intention.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This challenge made me realize I ought to be more intentional about my morning routine, which is haphazard at best. It was nice to spend the last hour of the day yesterday and the first waking hour of today without my phone.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Jason Kotenko, on the Labs team at Zapier, said the change prompted him to build a new, positive habit.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I find that I\u2019m mentally very sluggish in the morning, and having no phone to fall back on means I shower to wake myself up.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Jesse Parker, community manager at Zapier, also found themselves using the time with intention.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I spent my hour reading my book, drinking coffee, and taking the dogs for a good 30-minute walk. It\u2019s still tempting to check my phone for texts, but taking the time to breathe and read without having anything consume my thoughts has been really peaceful.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s all too easy to react to notifications first thing in the morning, then keep reacting to things all day. Avoiding your phone forces you to be intentional \u2014 to decide what you\u2019re going to do, instead of just reacting to something. That\u2019s liberating.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Prohibition_isnt_necessarily_the_answer\"><\/span>Prohibition isn\u2019t (necessarily) the answer<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Like I said earlier: I didn\u2019t set hard rules for this experiment. Enforcing a hard rule wasn\u2019t the point \u2014 it was about seeing what h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ens when we tried something. And what happened depended on each person\u2019s unique situation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1pndmrk-P e1g4vd6v3\">Deb Tennen, managing editor for the Zapier blog, learned that her results depended on the day.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"css-6hkhfu-QUOTE e1g4vd6v7\">\n<p class=\"css-1pndmrk-P e1g4vd6v3\">When I get to sleep till 7 a.m., no screen time is amazing and allows me to use my energized morning to focus on my family. When I wake up at 4:30 a.m. with a one-year-old, I need that morning screen time to help my brain wake up.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"css-1pndmrk-P e1g4vd6v3\">Janine Anderson, also a managing editor for the Zapier blog, had a similar experience.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"css-6hkhfu-QUOTE e1g4vd6v7\">\n<p class=\"css-1pndmrk-P e1g4vd6v3\">I woke up one morning at 4 a.m. for no good reason, so I watched things for a while when it was obvious I wasn\u2019t going to sleep. Then I sat up and read some things on my phone.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"css-1pndmrk-P e1g4vd6v3\">Because of the changing routines, Deb and Janine each set different rules for themselves. Deb decided to stay off Slack only but still read the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> or do an online crossword puzzle, and Janine said no social media or email while lying down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1pndmrk-P e1g4vd6v3\">Jacob Sowles, frontend engineer at Zapier, also found himself adjusting the rules.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"css-6hkhfu-QUOTE e1g4vd6v7\">\n<p class=\"css-1pndmrk-P e1g4vd6v3\">I woke up, and my brain was like, \u2018Hey, we could kill time until 8 a.m. by just staying in bed.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"css-1pndmrk-P e1g4vd6v3\">He didn\u2019t want an extra hour of sleep \u2014 just an extra hour of bed. So he changed the rule: no screens for the first hour <i class=\"css-1d8llfo-ITALIC e1g4vd6v11\">after leaving the bedroom<\/i>. That worked better for him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1pndmrk-P e1g4vd6v3\">These rules all make sense to me. I like to journal first thing in the morning, which I do on my laptop. I\u2019ve missed doing that first thing in the morning during this experiment, so my rule going forward will probably be that journaling before breakfast is fine, but Slack and Twitter are not.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1pndmrk-P e1g4vd6v3\">Maybe prohibition works best for you \u2014 maybe not. The important thing is to set rules for yourself and stick to them.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Some_of_us_are_sticking_with_it\"><\/span>Some of us are sticking with it<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>I was sincerely surprised how much calmer my mornings were after starting this experiment, so I\u2019m going to keep doing it \u2014 at least, a version of it. I find I\u2019m a lot calmer when I skip screen time, and that I enjoy conversation over breakfast a lot more. I hope this can become a habit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1pndmrk-P e1g4vd6v3\">Katie, who I quoted earlier, also plans to keep going.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"css-6hkhfu-QUOTE e1g4vd6v7\">\n<p class=\"css-1pndmrk-P e1g4vd6v3\">I\u2019m mostly sticking with it because it\u2019s been really nice so far, and I think it\u2019ll take longer than a week to make it a true habit. I still reached for my phone this morning, so I\u2019d like to see what it feels like after three-ish weeks.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"css-1pndmrk-P e1g4vd6v3\">Katie may or may not keep it up after a few weeks. That\u2019s fine. The point of experiments like this is to learn something about yourself, examine your habits, and think of small ways to improve things.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1pndmrk-P e1g4vd6v3\">If that sounds useful, I recommend avoiding screens in the morning for a few weeks. You might not stick with it, but you will certainly learn something.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-post-pubDate\">\n                                    Published March 19, 2021 \u2014 10:32 UTC\n                                <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script data-src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;appId=378011798897423&amp;version=v2.6\" id=\"socialSrcFacebook\" type=\"text\/template\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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