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[00:00.88] Paul: So Aimee, do you always check your emails in the morning?

[00:05.38] Aimee: Probably. Probably. Recently, I’m trying to stop using my electronic devices so much.

[00:16.38] So I think in the morning, I need to do other things but very often, I will quickly scan my phone and check because my phone is also my alarm clock, so it’s right there. It’s too handy.

[00:32.13] Paul: Yeah. I’m always one that wake up—I don’t know, I’ve got this really bad habit where I think something major has happened during the night.

[00:38.88] And so I wake up and I’m checking different websites and checking Facebook to see if there’s any messages or any great news over the course of the night.

[00:50.63] Yeah, it’s a really bad habit, you know. It starts to kind of dominate your life. Yeah, I think it’s quite addictive things, isn’t it?

[00:59.88] Aimee: Yeah. I’ve been thinking about it a lot recently. And it’s something I think that doesn’t need to be in the morning routine so much.

[01:06.88] It’s good to just get your head ready before you—your head and your body ready before you start thinking about checking emails and stuff.

[01:15.38] Paul: I agree. I heard somebody—there was a piece of advice, I can’t remember where I heard it from.

[01:20.63] But it was just to check your emails twice a day. You know, you don’t need to do more than that.

[01:27.13] Check once in the morning, once in the evening, that’s it.

[01:30.38] Check your news websites, maybe twice a day rather than every 30 minutes or something.

[01:38.88] Aimee: Yeah, that’s—

[01:41.13] Paul: Yeah. I think it requires discipline doesn’t it?

[01:43.13] Aimee: It does.

[01:43.88] Paul: Yeah.

[01:44.38] Aimee: It’s good advice but I don’t know if it’s very practical because if you’re using a smartphone, which I do, then you’re using it first,

[01:54.88] it’s got so many different function and you need it for—need it, I guess is a loose term.

[02:02.13] But you use it for so many different things. So it’s always there, you know. Always there.

[02:06.88] However, I did start reading a book the other day, so I’m trying to stop looking at my phone and start reading a book instead.

[02:15.63] Paul: Oh, good for you. Yeah.

[02:16.13] Aimee: Thanks.

[02:16.63] Paul: That’s good move. Yeah, I should perhaps do that myself.