Ignoring Your Way To Success

Treat checking emails as you would any other tasks: a to-do. Schedule specific times in your calendar to process email. And reduce the times you check email to 2 per day: one in the late morning and another in the late evening.

Your phone should provide as little distraction as possible. A few systems to help you stop a phone addiction:

• Don't look at your screen immediately after waking up. Use an analog alarm and keep your phone on the other side of the room.

1. Instead of checking your email endlessly, limit the number of times you check your inbox. 
2. Get things out of your email and onto your to-do list: If an email requires action beyond a response, then add that task to your to-do list where it belongs.
3. Don’t read...