NEWSLETTER
A 2-Second Daily Habit that Actually Saves Me 20+ Hours Every Week
October 20th edition of the Manximize newsletter
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2 min readOct 21, 2022
No, the title isn’t clickbait.
While bullet journaling helps me chalk the day’s goals, this habit lets me focus uninterruptedly.
Enough suspense — the 2-second hack is setting your phone on DND whenever you work.
Here’s the 2-pronged reason this is so bloody powerful:
- On average, we check our phones freaking 150 times a day — clocking 7+ screen hours on average.
- Research has found it can take up to 23 minutes to regain peak focus once distracted.
Even with a conservative estimate of 3 serious hours of work per day, that’s 21 hours salvaged in a week — and 1000+ in a year.
Even better? Set up a DND schedule to automate it:
- Navigate to Settings → Focus → Do Not Disturb → Turn On Automatically.
- Then set your desired start and end time(s).
