Ready to tame your tech so you can get more done in your day?
Your FQ is: Average
You need a
Screen Wean
You’re super tech savvy but you experience the adverse consequences of living a screen-saturated life.
More often than not, you feel tired and distracted and never allow yourself time to daydream or just ‘be’. You’re always checking your inbox and can rarely get through a task without your phone or laptop interrupting you. Siri is your constant companion and the incessant pings and dings from your devices hum like background music to your day. You know yo ur physical and emotional wellbeing would improve with less time spent online but you’re just not sure how to tame your troublesome tech habits.
Three Micro-Habits to Power-Up Your Performance
Wear headphones when you need to tackle your deep, focused work. Listening to music without lyrics or music with a tempo that imitates your resting heart beat can help boost your focus.
Establish a digital depot where you store your devices at home- this is a designated spot where your phone goes at night or when not in use.
Activate Focus mode. When you want to do deep work or simply don't want to be distracted turn on Focus mode. You can now customise this feature so some contacts can still get through whilst everyone else is blocked.
Companies spend billions of dollars each and every year on research alone, discovering how to make their systems, apps and online platforms even more engaging and enticing to us as consumers. Our tech is engineered to rob us of our time and attention (if you haven’t watched The Social Dilemma, please do so to hear more of the persuasive techniques deployed by tech companies to get us hooked on their platforms.
The technology we use has been intentially designed to meet (and actually prey) on our basic physiological needs. It causes f neurological changes in our brains and physiological responses in our bodies. We know for example, that some of us now suffer from ’email apnoea’ where we literally hold our breaths when we dive into our inboxes. Our heart rates increase and we dump cortical (the stress hormone).
But it’s not all doom and gloom! 1There are simple solutions that can help you tame your most troubling tech habits and get you back in control of your tech use.
Here are three ways I can help you do that:
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