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Your phone is one of the most impactful devices in your life.

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Over the past couple months, actually over the past year, I've been making small tweaks

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over time to make my phone more optimal and actually make it more aligned to my goals.

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Over the past couple episodes of this podcast, I've been talking about different one-time

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changes that you can make that help you exponentially grow for the future.

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All these different one-time changes include your changing your environment, changing your

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friends, changing your workspace, your room.

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There's a bunch of different one-time changes that you can make.

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I want to focus on the phone for now because the best thing that I've done, or actually

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one of the better things that I've done over the past year is turn my phone into a tool

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because a lot of people, most people use their phones as toys and as like extremely dangerous

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devices.

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Others for our mental health because that stuff destroys you.

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TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, even like simple things like Netflix and even things that I

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don't even know.

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Phone destroys your mental health.

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It destroys your life entirely.

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I'm not even going to lie.

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When you turn your phone into a tool, then you actually completely change the scripts.

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You go from a consumer to a producer.

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That's not the cause of it, but when you change your phone to a tool, you actually find that

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you don't want to go on your phone.

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It's actually a major inconvenience.

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I'm going to lay out a bunch of different things that I did.

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First of all, I deleted my social media accounts, delete all that stuff.

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I had an episode that I posted a couple of days ago about that if you want to learn more

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about that.

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Delete all that stuff.

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Delete all the non-tool apps from your phone.

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That's like any entertainment, any video games, anything like that.

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Anything that's not absolutely essential, delete it.

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The next thing is remove all of your apps from your home screen.

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Your home screens should be completely empty.

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Including that bottom tab, that bottom bar on the screen, just completely empty everything.

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That means that you have to swipe down and search.

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Another thing is turn off the recommended app when you swipe down.

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On the iPhone, this video is going to be tailored for iPhone users.

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If you're an Android user, sorry, you can figure these things out on your own.

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I just don't have an iPhone, so I can't really help, or I don't have an Android, so I can't

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really help.

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On the iPhone, when you swipe down to search for an app, disable the thing that recommends

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apps.

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When you disable that, all that shows up is the search bar.

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There's no apps that show up.

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That means that you have to manually search instead of tap.

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Then another thing is turn on grayscale mode on your phone.

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Change your wallpaper to something bland, like black.

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Just pure black.

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Then change your black screen to black also.

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Turn on do not disturb inevitably.

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Wait, inevitably?

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No.

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Turn on do not disturb indefinitely.

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These are all things.

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Another thing is keeping your phone on airplane mode and powered off.

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Actually close, hold down the power button and swipe that thing to actually shut it down.

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Keep that on airplane mode and powered off whenever you're not using it.

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Another thing is make it so that you have to click the power button to turn on your

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phone.

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When your phone is on, but it's off, by default the phone automatically turns on when you

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flip it over.

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When you pick it up, it automatically turns on.

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Disable that.

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Make it so you have to press the power button to turn it on.

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It's probably a bunch of other stuff that I did, or actually I don't even know.

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You'll find a bunch of things.

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I'm pretty sure that's all the things that I did for my phone.

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One last thing is make sure you change your environment where you keep your phone.

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Never keep your phone in your pocket.

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First of all, don't bring your phone places with you.

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I didn't bring my phone to school at all for an entire semester, last semester.

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I'm not going to school anymore, so I can't.

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If I had school again, then I wouldn't bring it again.

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Don't bring your phone places with you.

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I went to the Dominican Republic out of the country for an entire week of vacation.

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I didn't even bring my phone with me.

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I kept it in my house.

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Make sure you don't bring your phone places.

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If it's absolutely essential, like for example, I went to Florida by myself.

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I didn't want to bring my phone, but I understood that there was a lot of things that I would

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need my phone, like Uber and the airplane tickets.

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There's things that I needed my phone for for that trip.

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If it's absolutely essential, and by the way, emergencies don't count.

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What if there's an emergency?

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No, emergencies don't happen.

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If they do, every other person has a phone with them, so you can use their phone.

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If it's absolutely essential, you can bring your phone, but other than that, don't bring

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your phone.

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Another thing is leave your phone in the basement or the attic or somewhere far away.

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Leave your phone somewhere where it's very inconvenient for you to get up and walk all

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the way over there.

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Preferably separate your phone, separate yourself and your phone with stairs.

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Like I said, the basement or the attic.

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The best case scenario is to have a walk and stairs in between you and your phone.

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That means you have to get up off the couch, walk, go down the stairs, use the phone, and

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then go back up the stairs.

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Leave your phone somewhere far away and, like I said, leave it on airplane mode and

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power it off.

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That's pretty much all of the things that I did with my phone to...

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Oh, and also delete your YouTube account and don't use YouTube ever again.

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Or don't watch YouTube unless it's required.

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For example, when I'm working on work and figuring out how to learn how to edit, there's

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some things that I have to use YouTube to figure out how to do certain edits.

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That's the only time I use YouTube.

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That's pretty much all of the things that I recommend that I can think of right now

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to declutter your phone and make it more optimal.