Phone Hacks: 3 Steps to Set You Up For a Productive Morning
Are you sick of the way social media interrupts your morning routine? Here are our top 3 phone hacks to ensure your morning is both seamless and efficient.
One of the key reasons we find ourselves feeling distracted or unproductive, particularly in the morning, is because of how we use our phones.This is ironic given that for most of us, the first thing we do when we begin our day is to check our notifications.
The truth is, a habit like this is not only affecting how we feel when we initially wake up, it’s affecting how much time we have in the morning too. Fortunately, it doesn’t have to be like this.
As much as our Apple iPhones, iPads, Android phones and Samsung phones can be a mechanism for distraction, they can also be a tool for promoting optimal productivity, focus and flow.
Step 1: Configure your home screen.
We all have those apps that, instead of helping, become our guilty pleasures, leading us into hours of endless scrolling – often on social media platforms. To ensure a morning free from distractions, it’s crucial to remove these non-essential apps from your homepage. A deliberate swipe to another page on your phone can act as a reminder to refocus or take a genuine break, not just a scrolling spree. By configuring your homepage with only essential and work-related apps, you direct your attention to what truly matters, ensuring productivity and focus on priority tasks.
Here’s some apps we allow on our home-page:
And some apps we don’t:
Our advice: bury social media apps deep within a far-away folder if you have to!
Step 2: Turn off social notifications
If decluttering your homepage by removing unnecessary apps doesn’t cut it, consider taking a bolder step: turn off your notifications. The root of a chaotic, unproductive morning often lies in the endless stream of notifications flooding your lock screen. Even the most disciplined among us struggle to ignore them. In some cases, the best solution is to eliminate them from your mobile device entirely.
It’s impossible to give any task your full attention whilst your phone buzzes with text messages and phone calls.
Disabling notifications, particularly from messaging apps, creates a helpful illusion that we’re not missing out on anything significant. It also suggests that nothing else demands our attention, apart from the work-related task we are focusing on.
DID YOU KNOW?
Myelin growth, which is required to learn and develop different parts of your brain, requires sustained focus in order to activate. Interrupting the development of Myelin around active neural pathways significantly reduces our capacity to absorb and respond to information.
The result? Our mornings are far slower and clumsier in nature. We might even find ourselves repeating the same tasks in the afternoon!
Step 3: Listen to focus music
A great way to ensure you stay productive throughout the morning is by listening to deep focus or concentration music. This type of music is specifically designed to help you focus and block out any distractions.
Not only does listening to concentration music help with productivity, but it also has been shown to reduce stress and anxiety levels. By creating a calming atmosphere, your mind can enter a state of relaxation which allows for better concentration and focus.
You can easily find these types of playlists on streaming services such as Spotify or YouTube!
These phone hacks mean that your phone doesn’t have to be your worst enemy when it comes to ensuring a morning is seamless and efficient! Don’t forget: it’s all in the way use it.
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