Coaching practices for Phone Tool Not Feed

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• My thumb finds the same two apps and opens them before I even know I picked up the phone
• The first thing I see every time I unlock is a wall of icons begging to be opened, and I land in a feed before I even remember why I picked the phone up
• I open the same feed without even deciding to, and an hour’s gone before I notice
• My thumb is refreshing the feed before I’ve even decided to
• Even when I leave the phone in another room, I just end up restlessly wondering what I’m missing

Practices that may help

1. Increase friction on high-capture apps
   Add steps between you and the apps most likely to capture you — every additional tap reduces automatic use.
   Grayscale Phone Mode and Behavioral Design
2. Redesign your home screen as a tool, not a feed
   Your home screen should contain only task-completion tools — nothing whose primary function is to pull you in.
   Grayscale Phone Mode and Behavioral Design
3. Tame the Infinity Pools
   Add friction to bottomless apps — news feeds, email, video — so they stop hijacking attention.
   Make Time, Made Practical
4. Break the intermittent-reward loops
   Disrupt the unpredictable-payoff apps and feeds that train compulsive checking.
   Dopamine Detox, Honestly Explained
5. Replace checking with a scheduled pickup window
   Instead of picking up the phone whenever the urge hits, designate two pickup windows per evening.
   The Phone Foyer Method
6. Conduct a device audit: one use case, one device
   Map every use case you currently use your phone for and ask: could a single-purpose device do this better?
   Single-Purpose Devices
7. Strip out the attention-capturing features
   Keep the tool, remove the slot-machine parts: feeds, likes, autoplay, and notifications.
   Digital Minimalism, Made Practical
8. Use a dumb-phone or phone-free period during a defined daily window
   Designate a daily window during which your smartphone is replaced by a basic phone or put away entirely.
   Grayscale Phone Mode and Behavioral Design
9. State your intention before picking up a device
   Before opening a phone or browser, name what you are trying to accomplish — and close the device when that task is done.
   The Attention Economy: Reclaiming Your Focus from Systems Designed to Capture It
10. Protect conversations from phone intrusion
    Put the phone away — not face-down, fully away — during in-person conversations.
    Attention Reclaiming: Digital Minimalism in Practice

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