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Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it

Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it

The Apps Hierarchy

  • Tier 1: Habit-builders
  • Tier 2: Daily Tools
  • Tier 3: Someday Apps

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ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY

“Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY

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The key to healthy phone usage is thoughtful customization

The key to healthy phone usage is thoughtful customization

“Healthy” doesn’t necessarily mean very little screen time, but screen time that is dominated by the right apps.

You have to put the right triggers front and center.

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Arranging The Applications

Arranging The Applications

  • Step 1: Only display your Habit-builders and Daily Tools
  • Step 2: Adjust the notifications of your apps
  • Step 3: Test & adjust

With this setup, your home screen will be an instant, stark reminder of all the things you value and are working towards.

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Tier 2: Daily Tools

Tier 2: Daily Tools

These are the apps you need for your day-to-day activities or facilitate an important aspect of your life.

Standard apps such as Safari, Contacts, and Messages

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Tier 1: Habit-builders

Tier 1: Habit-builders

Apps that support the habits you want to build or maintain.

Make the habit (those apps) obvious. 

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Environment is the invisible hand that shapes human behavior.

JAMES CLEAR

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Tier 3: Someday Apps

Tier 3: Someday Apps

You either might need them someday or you need them some of the time. Standard iPhone apps that you occasionally use, such as the App Store or Voice Memo app

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Apps with higher value should have more visibility on your phone

Apps with higher value should have more visibility on your phone

Value: An app’s value is based on how it strongly aligns with and supports your values, goals, & desired habits

Visibility: This includes both the app’s accessibility (placement on screen) and how active the app can be (notification se...

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Our smartphone is the environment

Our smartphone is the environment

?Our smartphone is a space, where we spend a copious amount of time, that we may have overlooked as an environment.

For better or worse, we go about our daily lives in this digital palm-sized space.

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Dust Bunnies

Dust Bunnies

Apps that:

  • Are completely useless and you just forgot they were still there
  • Take up too much of your time when they really shouldn’t

Just “cut bad habits off at the source.”

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The GOLDEN RULE of habit change

The GOLDEN RULE of habit change

• We know that a habit cannot be eradicated. Instead, it must be replaced. Most habits are most malleable when the golden rule is applied:

• To change a habit, you must keep the old cue, and deliver the old reward...

How To Start A Daily Running Habit

1. Don’t Think: You just go—every day. 

2. Find A Schedule That Suits You: Try Fit your daily run in your current lifestyle.

3. Minimize Landing Shock: the last thing you want to do is over-complicated things.

4. Start Slowly: Try to improve your sha...

How To Figure Out The Cue?

How To Figure Out The Cue?

So, if you’re trying to figure out the cue for a habit, write down five things the moment the urge hits:

1. Where are you?

2. What time is it?

3. What’s your emotional state?

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