Reinforce Your Priorities By Doing This One, Time-Tested Thing
The easy way to eliminate the obstacles standing in your way of success
A friend of mine is deeply involved in learning a new skill, hoping he can change professions and make more money. Besides his 40+ hour-a-week job, he’s taking classes that involve successfully completing multiple projects each week.
It’s an understatement to say he is busy, yet he still finds time to spend with friends, work on his running, and cook elaborate (and delicious) meals.
He can do all this because he has prioritized what he wants (a new career) and eliminated what stands in his way (time-sucking distractions, mainly of the digital kind.)
Rather than try to ignore distracting notifications or block time-wasting apps, he completely removed any opportunity for them to appear in this phase of his life.
He did this by buying the smallest of flip phones. Rather than enjoy a bells-and-whistles-filled smartphone, which he feels is a distraction machine, he now uses a tiny phone (similar to this one.
When you see him using it, it’s like you’ve been magically transported back to the early 2000s. The phone is fine for making calls, but texting anything is a chore. Scrolling social media or…
