Today, I’d like to offer you some mentoring inspiration on what I call the two-telephone technique. We live in the age of dramatic distraction, and you know one of my popular brain tattoos, which is, “An addiction to distraction is the death of your creative production.” You might say, “Robin, I’ve heard you say that before.” And I get it. What I want to offer to you is, do you live the underlying message under it? Which is you can play with your phone or you can change the world. You don’t get to do both. And so the Two-Telephone Technique is a protocol that I’ve designed and that I have offered to the one-on-one clients that I coach. But one phone is, let’s call it your A phone. And this is your fully loaded phone. It has the weather, and it has the news, and it has your apps, and it has your email, and it has your social feeds, and it has your videos, and it has everything that you need to be fully loaded in a age of digital dominance. And then you have your secondary phone. This is your Spartan phone. All you have on this phone is the basics. It might just be a call feature that you turn off, or it might just be SMS. None of the other connection tools. Definitely no social media, definitely no videos, definitely no news, definitely weather. You carry this with you when you go on walks or you carry this with you when you’re in your five great hours work pocket. But this is the phone that’s with you most of the day. What that allows youto do is to be undefeatably indisturbable. It allows you to get real work done versus fake work done. And so what I want you to do is spend a lot less time with your primary phone, and I want you to start doing heroic work, creating masterwork, being away from the world, being hard to reach. You’re just working on your Project X, that one project that when you release it into the world, causes you to own the gain, to be domain, dominant, to push magic into the world and to make a profound difference.
