Practice #31 - Declutter Your Phone

1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,800 Your phone is one of the most impactful devices in your life. 2 00:00:07,800 --> 00:00:13,000 Over the past couple months, actually over the past year, I've been making small tweaks 3 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:23,440 over time to make my phone more optimal and actually make it more aligned to my goals. 4 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:32,000 Over the past couple episodes of this podcast, I've been talking about different one-time 5 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:41,280 changes that you can make that help you exponentially grow for the future. 6 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:48,200 All these different one-time changes include your changing your environment, changing your 7 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:51,360 friends, changing your workspace, your room. 8 00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:55,720 There's a bunch of different one-time changes that you can make. 9 00:00:55,720 --> 00:01:03,440 I want to focus on the phone for now because the best thing that I've done, or actually 10 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:10,120 one of the better things that I've done over the past year is turn my phone into a tool 11 00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:19,440 because a lot of people, most people use their phones as toys and as like extremely dangerous 12 00:01:19,440 --> 00:01:21,320 devices. 13 00:01:21,320 --> 00:01:27,280 Others for our mental health because that stuff destroys you. 14 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:35,520 TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, even like simple things like Netflix and even things that I 15 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:37,680 don't even know. 16 00:01:37,680 --> 00:01:39,560 Phone destroys your mental health. 17 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:42,760 It destroys your life entirely. 18 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:46,160 I'm not even going to lie. 19 00:01:46,160 --> 00:01:52,520 When you turn your phone into a tool, then you actually completely change the scripts. 20 00:01:52,520 --> 00:01:54,880 You go from a consumer to a producer. 21 00:01:54,880 --> 00:02:01,680 That's not the cause of it, but when you change your phone to a tool, you actually find that 22 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:05,040 you don't want to go on your phone. 23 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:07,400 It's actually a major inconvenience. 24 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:11,000 I'm going to lay out a bunch of different things that I did. 25 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:15,000 First of all, I deleted my social media accounts, delete all that stuff. 26 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:18,440 I had an episode that I posted a couple of days ago about that if you want to learn more 27 00:02:18,440 --> 00:02:19,440 about that. 28 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:20,640 Delete all that stuff. 29 00:02:20,640 --> 00:02:25,800 Delete all the non-tool apps from your phone. 30 00:02:25,800 --> 00:02:31,160 That's like any entertainment, any video games, anything like that. 31 00:02:31,160 --> 00:02:37,400 Anything that's not absolutely essential, delete it. 32 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:42,280 The next thing is remove all of your apps from your home screen. 33 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:44,880 Your home screens should be completely empty. 34 00:02:44,880 --> 00:02:52,080 Including that bottom tab, that bottom bar on the screen, just completely empty everything. 35 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:57,080 That means that you have to swipe down and search. 36 00:02:57,080 --> 00:03:02,440 Another thing is turn off the recommended app when you swipe down. 37 00:03:02,440 --> 00:03:05,800 On the iPhone, this video is going to be tailored for iPhone users. 38 00:03:05,800 --> 00:03:10,920 If you're an Android user, sorry, you can figure these things out on your own. 39 00:03:10,920 --> 00:03:15,400 I just don't have an iPhone, so I can't really help, or I don't have an Android, so I can't 40 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:17,800 really help. 41 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:28,480 On the iPhone, when you swipe down to search for an app, disable the thing that recommends 42 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:30,160 apps. 43 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:35,760 When you disable that, all that shows up is the search bar. 44 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:37,400 There's no apps that show up. 45 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:42,360 That means that you have to manually search instead of tap. 46 00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:49,600 Then another thing is turn on grayscale mode on your phone. 47 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:54,240 Change your wallpaper to something bland, like black. 48 00:03:54,240 --> 00:03:55,440 Just pure black. 49 00:03:55,440 --> 00:03:58,880 Then change your black screen to black also. 50 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:01,120 Turn on do not disturb inevitably. 51 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:03,120 Wait, inevitably? 52 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:04,360 No. 53 00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:09,320 Turn on do not disturb indefinitely. 54 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:11,160 These are all things. 55 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:15,840 Another thing is keeping your phone on airplane mode and powered off. 56 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:24,680 Actually close, hold down the power button and swipe that thing to actually shut it down. 57 00:04:24,680 --> 00:04:28,480 Keep that on airplane mode and powered off whenever you're not using it. 58 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:35,160 Another thing is make it so that you have to click the power button to turn on your 59 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:36,240 phone. 60 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:44,840 When your phone is on, but it's off, by default the phone automatically turns on when you 61 00:04:44,840 --> 00:04:46,000 flip it over. 62 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:49,000 When you pick it up, it automatically turns on. 63 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:50,000 Disable that. 64 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:55,280 Make it so you have to press the power button to turn it on. 65 00:04:55,280 --> 00:05:01,640 It's probably a bunch of other stuff that I did, or actually I don't even know. 66 00:05:01,640 --> 00:05:03,440 You'll find a bunch of things. 67 00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:08,000 I'm pretty sure that's all the things that I did for my phone. 68 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:12,160 One last thing is make sure you change your environment where you keep your phone. 69 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:15,200 Never keep your phone in your pocket. 70 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:17,560 First of all, don't bring your phone places with you. 71 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:22,840 I didn't bring my phone to school at all for an entire semester, last semester. 72 00:05:22,840 --> 00:05:24,880 I'm not going to school anymore, so I can't. 73 00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:28,800 If I had school again, then I wouldn't bring it again. 74 00:05:28,800 --> 00:05:30,400 Don't bring your phone places with you. 75 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:36,120 I went to the Dominican Republic out of the country for an entire week of vacation. 76 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:37,960 I didn't even bring my phone with me. 77 00:05:37,960 --> 00:05:42,880 I kept it in my house. 78 00:05:42,880 --> 00:05:45,120 Make sure you don't bring your phone places. 79 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:54,000 If it's absolutely essential, like for example, I went to Florida by myself. 80 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:57,520 I didn't want to bring my phone, but I understood that there was a lot of things that I would 81 00:05:57,520 --> 00:06:04,480 need my phone, like Uber and the airplane tickets. 82 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:07,640 There's things that I needed my phone for for that trip. 83 00:06:07,640 --> 00:06:10,960 If it's absolutely essential, and by the way, emergencies don't count. 84 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:12,280 What if there's an emergency? 85 00:06:12,280 --> 00:06:14,760 No, emergencies don't happen. 86 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:22,240 If they do, every other person has a phone with them, so you can use their phone. 87 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:25,360 If it's absolutely essential, you can bring your phone, but other than that, don't bring 88 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:28,800 your phone. 89 00:06:28,800 --> 00:06:37,160 Another thing is leave your phone in the basement or the attic or somewhere far away. 90 00:06:37,160 --> 00:06:41,960 Leave your phone somewhere where it's very inconvenient for you to get up and walk all 91 00:06:41,960 --> 00:06:42,960 the way over there. 92 00:06:42,960 --> 00:06:50,080 Preferably separate your phone, separate yourself and your phone with stairs. 93 00:06:50,080 --> 00:06:53,200 Like I said, the basement or the attic. 94 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:59,480 The best case scenario is to have a walk and stairs in between you and your phone. 95 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:05,800 That means you have to get up off the couch, walk, go down the stairs, use the phone, and 96 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:08,560 then go back up the stairs. 97 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:13,080 Leave your phone somewhere far away and, like I said, leave it on airplane mode and 98 00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:15,560 power it off. 99 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:20,400 That's pretty much all of the things that I did with my phone to... 100 00:07:20,400 --> 00:07:25,320 Oh, and also delete your YouTube account and don't use YouTube ever again. 101 00:07:25,320 --> 00:07:29,920 Or don't watch YouTube unless it's required. 102 00:07:29,920 --> 00:07:34,880 For example, when I'm working on work and figuring out how to learn how to edit, there's 103 00:07:34,880 --> 00:07:40,600 some things that I have to use YouTube to figure out how to do certain edits. 104 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:43,200 That's the only time I use YouTube. 105 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:48,800 That's pretty much all of the things that I recommend that I can think of right now 106 00:07:48,800 --> 00:08:13,560 to declutter your phone and make it more optimal.