You can own your game and change the world or play with your phone all day, but you can’t do both. So I want you, in an effort to increase your lifestyle, to be with your digital devices much less. Make sure that all of your technology is a servant to you versus your master. One tool to do that is the two-phone solution. It’s a very powerful idea, and I really, really want you to do this today. Go out and buy a second phone. So you’ve got a phone loaded up with apps. Maybe it’s social media and the weather, et cetera, et cetera, your music, all those things you have. Then you have a very spartan, austere phone, which basically is like an old school phone, or it could be a modern phone, but all you have on it is maybe SMS and you can reach the people you want. Nothing else. When you’re working, and maybe when you finish after the five great hours, you finished your work and you’re going to go for a walk, you can take that spartan phone with you, no notifications, you won’t be distracted. Maybe you have a music app on it, you listen to music, or you might have your audiobooks on it and you have a phone so in case there’s an emergency or whatever, you have your phone. But aside from that, you are unreachable, you get lost, no one can reach you, and you go into flow state. How do you get into flow state? Well, you basically strip out distraction and the two-phone solution will help you do that. Because if you are going through your professional day, your creative day and your personal day, and you are constantly getting notifications and feeling the push and dopamine rush of sending messages and checking how many likes, well, then, you are never going to enjoy a beautiful life. You must make the time to be away from distractions and interruptions and trivial pursuits.
