I also use full time on my phone, then take over.
"Most people hold their phone calls every 15 minutes or less, even if they have no advice or information," said Larry Rosen, a professor of psychology and founder of The Distracted Mind, Homesick said. "We've created a list of concerns that include our use of technology, that if we don't look as often as we believe we should, we miss out."
Rosen’s research has shown that in addition to growing anxiety, the need to monitor notifications and feeds combat people’s ability to focus.
Fortunately, you do not need to set up Apple - you can have more information about how to use your phone. If you are asking for specific steps to lower your language instead of simply saying, "I'll go to Facebook for a while," or "I won't give up Snapchat as a career," here are some simple tips to help you rearrange your path:
Here are seven recordings I have used or learned from others:
Keep yourself on the list
Rosen suggests an important step away from your phone to set alarms on how often you can check. Start every 15 minutes, and continue every half-hour, every 45 minutes, or every hour. When your alarm sounds, spend one minute using any notifications and reset the timer To reduce the anxiety of responding and keep yourself responsible, Rosen suggests telling dear friends or family that you may not respond to their information immediately because you were also exercising. Close as several potentially powerful notifications.
You do not have to be overwhelmed by everything "similar" to your highly developed Instagram photo or the message that your chosen podcast has just published a different episode.
A straightforward way to minimize disruption is to turn off push details for as many applications as possible. Just go to Settings> Notifications to manage your favorites. I only leave email messages, chat app messages, calendars, and help apps like Lyft or GetAround, which only work when you use them.
Remove disturbing apps from your home screen.
"Most phone use is a blank form," Rosen said. "You go from Facebook to Instagram, you control the weather, you text."
But if you have to look for an app to use it correctly, you will cut out the feathers in the "accidental" sucking moments that occur when you first pull out around your phone.
Have the apps you want to help you use - such as learning or learning a new language - front and center, but close anything you want to check your time with in the folders on your next side of the app (or if it's an Android phone, fully covered).
Going forward, you may be able to upgrade other apps like Facebook or Twitter completely and transfer your way to your smartphone's web browser.
Push your device out of bed
Don’t let your phone be the little thing you watch at night and the first thing you look at in the morning. Having a standard alarm clock and charging your phone where you can't reach it, you won't start your day by preparing vortexed into a flood of messages and updates.
If you have a different speaker, use it
One of the great things about prominent speakers such as the Amazon Echo or Google home effects encourages you to live a life without screens.
After I do one, I stop using music or podcasts on my phone and will try to answer all the important issues with the voice. In general, using my smart chair for as many things as possible has kept my smartphone in my hand for a long time.
Try adding grayscale to your phone.
One of the most troubling ways to curb the time you spend on your smartphone is to protect its unattractive screen.
Time Well Spent, a community-based organization that focuses on improving our relationships with technology, suggests that you turn your phone into gray to remove the “glossy rewards” from the colorful images that you bring to you every time you turn it on.
I saw this strategy work amazingly well by blocking me from apps like Facebook and Instagram, even though I ended up using different times when I needed to use maps or take photos.
You can unlock the grayscale by digging around the "Accessibility" section of your phone's settings. On the iPhone, find “Display Locations” and open “Color Filters.” On a Samsung device, see “Photo” and scroll down to “Grayscale.”
Always justify yourself
Want to judge your trip?
Agree to install an app that tracks your smartphone habits, such as QualityTime or Moment, so that you can set a specific usage goal and see how well you stick to it.
Set aside one day / week.
By far, the most popular method I look at is among people who have taken steps to curb their mobile phone habit now. I trust Tammy Strobel to be the first person I know - about a decade ago. Choose one day each week (usually Saturday and Sunday) and set your phone down. That's all, make a habit of it.
Use the 30-Day Trial to reset your habit.
For me, this has been the most effective way to break the habit of my cell phone. If not intentionally, the use of my cell phone often takes up much of my free time. It seems careless and modest - I don't even seem to see it happening.
Seven years ago, I turned on my smartphone with Lent and got used to calling and texting only (no other apps are allowed - not even graphics and photos). It was a 40-day reset time that helped me plan my use of many sports in life. Since the first search, I have used the 30-day reset two times twice — each with outstanding success.
Use apps to maintain self-control.
There are applications for almost every obstacle in life. There are some great apps designed to help us narrow down our knowledge to our machines. Here are some of my favorites:
Space. The set ends and follows your daily progress to manage your habits.
The forest. ($ 1.99) Stay focused, stay tuned. Forest is a very well-designed app that makes gamification fecundity and planted