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How to Configure Your Cell Phone for Productivity and Focus

Coach Tony
Aug 24, 2017 · 8 min read
Rearranged my home screen for #singletasking. ~ @mccx

Your phone would be a lot more useful if it did less. You’d get more done. You’d have more focus. You’d have more time.

The root problem is that cell phones are designed as if multitasking is a virtue. Notifications, badges, banners, games, inboxes and social media all work to create an environment of interruption and task switching. However, all science says we…

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