Coaching practices for Single Purpose Devices Before Bed

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• I tell myself the phone’s only by my bed because it’s my alarm, but then I’m scrolling it the last thing at night and the first thing before I’m even fully awake
• There’s no point where I actually put the screen down for the night
• My bed has basically become where I scroll and watch shows, not where I sleep
• I tell myself I’ll put the phone down and sleep, but it’s right there on the nightstand and I pick it up again and again
• I go straight from being fully switched-on

Practices that may help

1. Use a dedicated alarm clock to remove the phone from the bedroom
   A cheap alarm clock eliminates the phone-in-bedroom rationalization, freeing the whole room from the device.
   Single-Purpose Devices
2. Single-Purpose Devices
   Single-purpose devices — a Kindle for reading, a watch for time, a notebook for writing — remove the switching cost and distraction potential of a general-purpose smartphone. Cal Newport advocates this as a structural solution to attention fragmentation. The evidence is primarily mechanistic: it works by reducing the availability of competing behaviors at the moment of use.
3. Set a screen cutoff time
   Pick a consistent hour to put screens away and protect the wind-down window.
   The Digital Sunset
4. Keep screens out of the bedroom
   Reserve the bed for sleep so the space itself cues winding down.
   The Digital Sunset
5. Charge your phone outside the bedroom permanently
   The phone charges overnight in another room — this single change eliminates four pathways of sleep disruption simultaneously.
   The Phone-Free Bedroom
6. Build a consistent pre-sleep wind-down routine
   Create a repeatable 30-60 minute pre-sleep sequence that cues the nervous system toward rest.
   The Phone-Free Bedroom
7. The Digital Sunset
   A "digital sunset" is winding down screens and bright light in the evening to protect sleep. The strongest part of the case is light timing — bright light at night delays your clock and keeps you alert — plus the simple fact that engaging content and late scrolling displace sleep. The popular blue-light-glasses fix, by contrast, has weak and mixed evidence, so this hub leans on the levers that actually hold up.
8. Set a screen curfew 60-90 minutes before sleep
   All screens off 60-90 minutes before intended sleep time — including television.
   The Phone-Free Bedroom
9. Restore the bedroom as a stimulus for sleep only
   Reserve the bed exclusively for sleep and sex — no working, scrolling, or watching in bed.
   The Phone-Free Bedroom
10. Don’t over-rely on blue-light glasses
    Treat blue-light-blocking glasses as a weak, optional add-on, not the fix.
    The Digital Sunset

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