How often do you check your phone?
How much more productive or happier will you be if you could spend less time on your phone?
This video will cover 5 tips to spend less time on your phone and we are starting right
now.
Uninstall the problem apps.
Chances are, you always check the same 1,2 or 3 apps when you spend time on your phone.
It is also likely that the apps are social media apps like Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat,
and Twitter.
These apps are designed to get you hooked and keep you going back to them which is why
you might often check your phone.
To spend less time on your phone, you can uninstall them.
Without the apps being there, you wont have too many reasons to check your phone.
If you need those apps for work, be honest with yourself first.
Are you actually working when you check your phone or are you just mindlessly scrolling?
If its the latter, you can afford to uninstall and do your work from a desktop or laptop.
If you are unwilling to uninstall, theres an alternative which brings me to point 2.
Use a blocking app.
There are apps like cold turkey and appblock that block apps on your phone for a certain
time frame.
You can block out the apps that force you to always check your phone so that theres
no point to check your phone.
This is a great choice if you are not willing to part ways with the apps by uninstalling
them.
With this, you will spend less time and you will still have the apps on your phone.
But if you are spending more time on your phone after the blocked time frame is over,
you might want to try uninstalling or the other tips.
Minimize your information intake.
We check our phones because there will always be new information up every few minutes.
Whether its the news or social media, there is so much information online.
If you minimize how much information you receive, you can spend a lot less time on your phone.
By unfollowing and unfriending people or pages you barely interact with, your feed will be
more stale.
When your feed becomes more stale, you will eventually check your phone less because there
is nothing new to look at.
This is a good alternative to using a blocking app if the blocking app isnt helping.
Mute all notifications.
You can use the do not disturb function on your phone or you can go to each individual
app and turn off notifications.
Whatever you choose, it will help you spend less time on your phone because whenever you
hear the sound of a notification, you are probably excited to check it out.
Your brain gets a dopamine rush which is the chemical that makes you feel good and you
will always repeat this behavior because it feels good.
When you first turn off all notifications, it might feel funny because you might feel
that you are not getting that much attention but after a while, you will get used to it.
You will be more productive when you have a timeframe to check all your notifications
instead of repeatedly checking your phone throughout the day for each notification.
If you often check your phone because you get a lot of notifications, this tip will
help you a lot.
Be aware of when you want to pull out the phone.
By being more self aware, you can stop checking your phone or check it less.
Using your phone can be a habit.
Theres a cue, habit, and then the reward.
For me, the cue would be when I am bored so I would check my phone and scroll through
social media which was the habit.
And the reward was the feeling of doing something.
If you can identify your cue to check your phone, you can then replace the habit or do
the habit less.
Depending on the setting, you can replace checking your phone with talking to people,
making something to drink, getting a book to read, or whatever fits the situation.
This is a great tip if you want to develop a new habit to replace checking your phone.
Which tip will you implement?
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