Do you ever find yourself awake at 2 a.m. wondering if you’re still a recurring character in someone else’s story? My brain does this from time to time, usually starting with something specific like my Grad Night date at Disneyland in the late ’80s. I wonder if she ever thinks of me, or if I’ve been entirely edited out of her personal history. Then the spiral continues to former coworkers, old crushes, and people I haven't spoken to in decades. It is a strange realization that we all carry around these mental ghosts of people who have moved on to entirely different lives. I find the inevitable fade into obscurity kind of liberating. People get so worked up about legacies and being remembered forever, but I have decided to keep my final resting place a secret. If I am going to be the person, like 99% of the rest of us, whose grave eventually no one visits, I would rather just be a permanent mystery than a forgotten landmark. I have even put it in my will that my body is to be composted and distributed in a secret place known only to one person. Does your brain ever take you down these rabbit holes, or are you better at staying in the present than I am? (Image created with ChatGPT.)

Hi everyone. Hope you're all well? Sorry that i have been off grid for a while but there's a reason for doing so. Coach posted something recently about mobile phones and is a really interesting topic. I decided to cut right back on my mobile phone usage a while ago and now become a bit of a digital nomad so to speak. I am just using my mobile mainly for phone calls, texts and WhatsApp as I found like a lot of us we are guilty of spending way too much time on our devices. Since doing this it's been a game changer for me and has had a positive impact on my mental health rather than reading and seeing doom and gloom all over the web. Myself and my wife have stopped using our phones after 7pm each night and spending quality time together rather than both staring endlessly at our screens. Have any of you cut back on your phone usage and if so how did you find it?