PROLOGUE

There are two speculated reasons as to why we're more bored after taking phone breaks;

•  Switching from work to your phone and back again may end up being more mentally tiring than it is stimulating; and
• Picking up our phones might serve as reminders of all the fun we could be d...

• We spend too much time outside the present moment. 
• According to a Harvard study, we spend almost 50% of the time we're awake, not thinking about what we're doing. We either ruminate about things that happened in the past or we worry about things that yet have to come.
• This i...

Procrastination manifests from a failure to regulate negative emotions. This is your brain’s coping mechanism to protect you from a perceived threat in the present. 

Maybe you’re feeling anxious, bored, frustrated, resentful, or insecure about a pressing task, so you avoid ...