Focus Booster Simple Habits: Jan 2023
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Simple Habits
🚀 Focus Booster (Jan 17 – Feb 26)
Our first Booster is a community-led challenge to help you dial back on screen time and distractions while making space for one simple activity and habit that you want to do more of.
Step 1: Eliminate distractions and distracting apps that suck your time and attention
Step 2: Create a simple habit that moves you forward in an important goal
Step 3: Celebrate your progress and build momentum to keep things going!
Start with a Declutter, Build Habits along the Way
- First we need to create some space (margin)
- You can’t add a new habit on top of an overflowing life
- Then we’ll double down
We Need Margin
- Margin is the space between our load and our limit
- Margin exists for relationships
- Margin enables us to LIVE INTO our values
Solidtude Deprivation
A state in which you spend close to zero time alone with your own thoughts and free from the input from other minds.
(Notes: Margin is a moving target and thus requires our attention on a yearly, monthly, weekly, and even daily basis. You can’t set it and forget it.)
(Notes: Two ways to restore margin, increase your limit, decrease your load. The digital declutter will do both.)
Philosophy of Technology Use
- Just as we need a philosophy toward the types of food we eat and why, so too do we need a philosophy regarding the types of technology we embrace and use.
- A technology philosophy is nothing more than a manifesto of how and why we use technology
- Someone that avoids sugar isn’t anti-food. Just as someone that refrains from engaging with certain technologies isn’t anti-tech.
Digital Minimalism
A philosophy of technology use in which you focus your online time on a small number of carefully selected and optimized activities that strongly support things you value, and then happily miss out on everything else.
Digital Declutter
The goal is to make lasting change for a simplified digital life. This isn’t just a break from social media or an excuse to ignore phone calls and texts. It’s a reevaluation of the technologies we allow in our life on a day-to-day basis. The declutter is a necessary detox to make clear decisions about our technology use without being influenced by our current default behaviors.
- January 18 through February 16
- Take a break from optional technology for the next 30 days
- Explore activities that you find satisfying and meaningful
- At the end of the break, reintroduce optional technologies into your life, starting from a blank slate. For each technology you reintroduce, determine what value it serves in your life and how specifically you will use it so as to maximize this value.
- The digital declutter will not be effective if viewed as a break from technology. It is meant to lead to change.
Exercises
- Turn off all notifications
- Remove all non-essential apps from your phone
- Create “Instead of” List (5 minutes)
- Choose your area of focus for the next 30 days (Brainstorm potential habits that would align and move you toward your desired outcome)
Simple Habits (Lifestyle Practices)
- Pick a habit to change your life
- Habits move us toward a destination
- We can’t control our outcomes, but we can control our inputs
Nice work, !
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