Ditch The Doom Scroll

On this episode Kat talks about breaking a particularly negative habit: Doom scrolling on your phone, especially first thing in the morning and last thing at night.   KEY TAKEAWAYS It’s become more and more apparent over the years that more and more of us are struggling with our phones and the concept of excessive scrolling, known as ‘doom scrolling’. Going on my phone last thing at night and first thing in the morning was definitely something that contributed to my life explosion in 2016. It was one of my most toxic habits. The definition of doom scrolling is about scrolling negativity through the news, but for a lot of us doom scrolling is that rabbit hole where you spend sometimes hours just looking at and absorbing content in a sort of zombified state. Part of the challenge is that when we move around our homes or workplaces, we’re taking our phones with us. At home, one easy thing you can do is find a home for your phone and leave it there.   BEST MOMENTS “Even now I work really hard to not fall back into the trend of looking at my phone last thing at night and first thing in the morning.” “Rather than going to bed with your phone and doom scrolling before you go to sleep, put it in the other side of the room or even better in another room and read instead.” “The more you practice this the more aware you are and you’ll be able to stop yourself from doing it.”   ABOUT THE HOST Kat started her career as a teacher, before moving into Tech where she worked in different executive roles within teaching and consulting working across the globe, both in the public and private sector. Despite appearing 'successful' on the outside, she paid a heavy ‘life’ price. In 2016, her whole world collapsed. The reason? The compound effect of years of unhealthy and toxic habits that destroyed her health, relationship and career. She suffered a severe breakdown and lost everything. In the middle of this she got headhunted for her first CEO role. She rebuilt herself by changing just one small habit, and built a series of positive habits which has transformed her professional and personal performance, resulting in becoming the healthiest and happiest version of herself. She is a positive habits international keynote speaker and teacher, giving talks and delivering high impact programmes to organisations across the globe. LinkedIn Instagram