My Experience With The No-Phone Challenge
It is so amazing to know that on average, people open their phones 58 times a day, and the average phone usage time is 3 hours and 15 minutes per day. This statistics is from research conducted by RescueTime.
The No-Phone Challenge was a challenge that Freda Mawia asked both of us to challenge ourselves with after she realized the amount of time she was spending on her phone while trying to complete a task.
The aim of this challenge was for us to go about our daily lives without our phones for about 8 hours every day. The plan was to try it for one week, see the outcome and then decide if we will need to continue.
Surprisingly, by the end of the second day of the challenge, we found out that we could really do without our phones — our productivity level increased and we also increased the level of our concentration at school.
For a lot of us, we are quite aware that our phones are a major source of distraction and putting our phones away for 8 hours might seem like a daunting task.
Everyday, while I was participating in the challenge, I posted content of victory of how I have been able to scale through the day without my phone. Some friends confessed to me that it might be hard to do without their phones for such period of time but my response to them was, “That’s why…
