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Hey, everyone. It's Dr. Sahara Yousef here, your guest host for the week. Welcome to Radio Headspace.

As you know, this week is all about how to have better focus, so you can be more productive and get more out of life. As a cognitive

neuroscientist, I've studied all the ways that our phones can be distracting and how they steal

our precious attention and energy,

especially when we're scrambling to get things done. So today, I'm sharing some simple tips on

how to improve your relationship with your phone and how to keep your phone as a tool that

you use versus a tool that uses you.

Our phones have truly been designed to steal your attention and keep you coming back for more because every single time my mind wanders to looking at my email, checking a text message,

and then I redirect my attention back to, let's say, my document or the thing that I'm trying to focus on.

Guess what?

It doesn't come for free.

You pay for it.

It is simply going to take you, sometimes up to twice as long, to get the same amount of work done, and you will be more exhausted

by the end of the day if you allow yourself to work in a way where you're allowing yourself

to be constantly interrupted. So really taking a hard look at our relationship with these devices

is going to be of utmost importance if you do want

to bring your A game to your productivity so that you have more time and energy for your actual

life. The number one change that I would recommend as it relates to our notifications and our

phones, hurting our productivity, do an audit.

Turn off almost all of your notifications.

The only reason a notification should be allowed to actually interrupt your train of thought and interrupt your day is if it has one or both of these qualities. It is more important or more

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