Life Got So Much Better When I Turned Off My Phone Notifications
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Apps, emails, promos, DMs and tiny red badges had hijacked my attention. Taking it back forced me to evaluate my relationship with my phone.
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The first thing I noticed was the silence.
I woke up, reached for my iPhone and found nothing waiting for me. No Slack messages stacked on top of Gmail alerts. No Instagram likes to feed my ego. No Apple News headline to spike my cortisol. No Uber Eats promo. No Amazon deals. No little red-numbered accusations telling me I had already fallen behind before I could gather my thoughts and wash my face.
My lock screen was blank. Not "quiet" in the way Do Not Disturb makes it temporarily quiet, where everything is still piling up behind a curtain, waiting for you to turn the world back on. This was different.
I had gone into my settings, app by app, and...
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