One of the most annoying habits I picked up in the last few years is checking my computer and phone upon waking up. Often, I'll get sucked in, spending minutes – sometimes hours if I'm not careful – writing back to emails or taking care of work that I could (should) start at the office, or at least, when I'm out of my pajamas. I'm not proud of those days I forgo my pre-work workout for furious typing on the keyboard. (Why can't typing burn as many calories as running up and down stairs?). It makes me feel like such a slave to technology at these moments.

Media maker Eric Slatkin, who is also a Bold Local, understands my pain. He explains "Most mornings the first thing I do is check my phone or computer. It never sat right with me (and I'm sure it doesn't with others either), so I started this simple Twitter project called I CHECK AFTER, which asks people to list one thing they do before they check their phones in the morning."

Eric's first Tweet went up on Monday morning: "#icheckafter my morning coffee." He hopes others will participate. If nothing else, it'll give pause to those (like me) caught in the rat race.

So go ahead, tell the Twitterverse, what do you (or maybe, what would you like to do?) before you check-in with the world?