Your phone is one of the most impactful devices in your life.
Over the past couple months, actually over the past year, I've been making small tweaks
over time to make my phone more optimal and actually make it more aligned to my goals.
Over the past couple episodes of this podcast, I've been talking about different one-time
changes that you can make that help you exponentially grow for the future.
All these different one-time changes include your changing your environment, changing your
friends, changing your workspace, your room.
There's a bunch of different one-time changes that you can make.
I want to focus on the phone for now because the best thing that I've done, or actually
one of the better things that I've done over the past year is turn my phone into a tool
because a lot of people, most people use their phones as toys and as like extremely dangerous
devices.
Others for our mental health because that stuff destroys you.
TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, even like simple things like Netflix and even things that I
don't even know.
Phone destroys your mental health.
It destroys your life entirely.
I'm not even going to lie.
When you turn your phone into a tool, then you actually completely change the scripts.
You go from a consumer to a producer.
That's not the cause of it, but when you change your phone to a tool, you actually find that
you don't want to go on your phone.
It's actually a major inconvenience.
I'm going to lay out a bunch of different things that I did.
First of all, I deleted my social media accounts, delete all that stuff.
I had an episode that I posted a couple of days ago about that if you want to learn more
about that.
Delete all that stuff.
Delete all the non-tool apps from your phone.
That's like any entertainment, any video games, anything like that.
Anything that's not absolutely essential, delete it.
The next thing is remove all of your apps from your home screen.
Your home screens should be completely empty.
Including that bottom tab, that bottom bar on the screen, just completely empty everything.
That means that you have to swipe down and search.
Another thing is turn off the recommended app when you swipe down.
On the iPhone, this video is going to be tailored for iPhone users.
If you're an Android user, sorry, you can figure these things out on your own.
I just don't have an iPhone, so I can't really help, or I don't have an Android, so I can't
really help.
On the iPhone, when you swipe down to search for an app, disable the thing that recommends
apps.
When you disable that, all that shows up is the search bar.
There's no apps that show up.
That means that you have to manually search instead of tap.
Then another thing is turn on grayscale mode on your phone.
Change your wallpaper to something bland, like black.
Just pure black.
Then change your black screen to black also.
Turn on do not disturb inevitably.
Wait, inevitably?
No.
Turn on do not disturb indefinitely.
These are all things.
Another thing is keeping your phone on airplane mode and powered off.
Actually close, hold down the power button and swipe that thing to actually shut it down.
Keep that on airplane mode and powered off whenever you're not using it.
Another thing is make it so that you have to click the power button to turn on your
phone.
When your phone is on, but it's off, by default the phone automatically turns on when you
flip it over.
When you pick it up, it automatically turns on.
Disable that.
Make it so you have to press the power button to turn it on.
It's probably a bunch of other stuff that I did, or actually I don't even know.
You'll find a bunch of things.
I'm pretty sure that's all the things that I did for my phone.
One last thing is make sure you change your environment where you keep your phone.
Never keep your phone in your pocket.
First of all, don't bring your phone places with you.
I didn't bring my phone to school at all for an entire semester, last semester.
I'm not going to school anymore, so I can't.
If I had school again, then I wouldn't bring it again.
Don't bring your phone places with you.
I went to the Dominican Republic out of the country for an entire week of vacation.
I didn't even bring my phone with me.
I kept it in my house.
Make sure you don't bring your phone places.
If it's absolutely essential, like for example, I went to Florida by myself.
I didn't want to bring my phone, but I understood that there was a lot of things that I would
need my phone, like Uber and the airplane tickets.
There's things that I needed my phone for for that trip.
If it's absolutely essential, and by the way, emergencies don't count.
What if there's an emergency?
No, emergencies don't happen.
If they do, every other person has a phone with them, so you can use their phone.
If it's absolutely essential, you can bring your phone, but other than that, don't bring
your phone.
Another thing is leave your phone in the basement or the attic or somewhere far away.
Leave your phone somewhere where it's very inconvenient for you to get up and walk all
the way over there.
Preferably separate your phone, separate yourself and your phone with stairs.
Like I said, the basement or the attic.
The best case scenario is to have a walk and stairs in between you and your phone.
That means you have to get up off the couch, walk, go down the stairs, use the phone, and
then go back up the stairs.
Leave your phone somewhere far away and, like I said, leave it on airplane mode and
power it off.
That's pretty much all of the things that I did with my phone to...
Oh, and also delete your YouTube account and don't use YouTube ever again.
Or don't watch YouTube unless it's required.
For example, when I'm working on work and figuring out how to learn how to edit, there's
some things that I have to use YouTube to figure out how to do certain edits.
That's the only time I use YouTube.
That's pretty much all of the things that I recommend that I can think of right now
to declutter your phone and make it more optimal.