Time to Live Your Full Potential - 20 Time Tested Principles for Getting More Out of Life

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So my phone has the more accurate count. Love the Zero app and I generally try not to eat before Schedule Night Shift Yes, mine is set for 8pm. Turn off advertising tracking Yes. Set auto-lock to the maximum time 5 minutes. Turn on control center everywhere Yes. Turn on Background App Refresh Yes. Develop verbal memory for talking to Siri Yes, for all the ones in the list plus calling and face-timing people.

Set up these text replacement shortcuts I use three: Set your address Yes, in all five places. Backup this way Yes, I use iCloud, with multiple redundancies since my photos get backed up to other places and all of my important individual services are backed by cloud storage. Do you have anything to add or correct in this article? Sign in Get started.

Read the steps underneath the headline. This is for true productivity nerds, i. Optimize First for Single Tasking 1. Turn OFF almost all notifications 2. Hide social media slot machines 3. Hide messaging slot machines 4. Disable app review requests 5. Turn on Do Not Disturb 6. Be strategic about your wallpaper 7. Turn off Raise to Wake 8. Add the Screen Time widget 9.

Add Content Restrictions Optional Use Restrictions to turn off Safari Choose Google Calendar Replace Apple Maps with Google Maps Install the GBoard keyboard for faster typing Use Evernote for all note taking, to-do lists, everything The Case for Calm as your go-to meditation app Install the right goal tracker for you Store all your passwords in a password manager, probably LastPass Use Numerical as your default calculator Put the Camera app in your toolbar Use this Doppler Radar app Use this Pomodoro app Subscribe to these podcasts Install the Kindle app but never read it in bed Use Safari this way Organize your home screen for deep learning over shallow learning Use These Apps and Configurations for Longevity Track steps this way Schedule Night Shift Change Siri to a man Turn off advertising tracking Set auto-lock to the maximum time Set your personal hotspot password to a three word phrase Turn on control center everywhere Turn on Background App Refresh Delete Garage Band Develop verbal memory for talking to Siri Set up these text replacement shortcuts Set your address Backup this way Appendix A: Case Study Appendix D: For a while, I titled my folder Worthless.

That was overly judgmental. This setup goes a little bit deeper, though: You decide when you check these. Live a life without interruptions! I call my folder Messages. The default iPhone folder name suggestion is Productivity. Follow the same trick from 2, hide all but one of the apps on the second screen of the folder.

Religious Americans are reported to have more robust immune systems, lower blood pressure, and better recovery times from operations, although these claims have been disputed. But on a Mac, Do Not Disturb is always scheduled, so turning it on all day requires hacking the schedule to be something like 9am to 9am. Many of you though will prefer to just have it on for a set time, say 6pm to 9am. Allow calls from your favorites. Now your Favorites list actually takes on more meaning: Do not select this. We absolutely do not want to train telemarketers to think this will work.

Be strategic about your wallpaper The absolute best wallpaper is an all black background. The all-black option is right there at the end. There are other options: The best conversation starter is a pet. If necessary, go get a pet. Always adopt from a pound , rather than from a breeder.

Take a photo of your pet.

Pick Still saves battery life and Set Both. If you find inspirational images inspiring: Confirm that this is you by looking at your walls. Go browse for killer inspiration fewer words is better: Save the image to your phone. If you take this approach, consider two things: Try just using this for your Lock screen rather than your Home screen. Text often works better on your Lock screen than it does behind the apps on your Home screen.

Try creating a new wallpaper every few weeks that has the same affirmation, but a different background. Passionate, Aggressive, Important Green: Natural, Stable, Prosperous Blue: Serene, Trustworthy, Inviting Black: Powerful, Sophisticated, Edgy White: To install the Screen Time widget: Swipe to the Today Screen by swiping right from your home screen. At the bottom of the Today screen, select Edit.

This will bring up a list of apps that have widgets. Tap the green plus button for Screen Time to enable the widget, and then tap and hold on the three-horizontal-lines button to reorder the widget to be near the top. Organize your apps and folders alphabetically There are four ways to organize your apps: On your home screen, organize all of your apps by name, with numbers like 1Password coming before letters. In your folders, organize the apps hidden behind the first screen alphabetically as well.

On your second screen, organize your folders alphabetically. Probably, they should mostly be inside folders. Put them in folders! I put all these Apple apps into a folder on my third screen, mostly as a precaution in case I need them one day. In practice, I mostly just use Wallet and get to that through the right-hand button shortcut double press. Get a Google account you probably already have one. Download the Gmail app. And make sure notifications are turned off also Step 3. Apple has only recently started letting you delete built-in apps. Take advantage of it! Go to Gmail from your computer and disable your inbox tabs.

Install the Google Calendar app. Never allow badging anywhere. Then enter the Google Calendar settings. You can change the start of the week from Sunday to Monday or in a few locales, Saturday. But whatever, lots of people have strong opinions on this. Then, go into Default event duration and set the default to 30 minutes. Last, add the Google Calendar widget to the top of your Today screen: Install the Google Maps app.

Add Home and Work addresses to My Places in the app. This will involve connecting to a Google account. If you have trouble and are using a custom Google domain, then you may need to enable some permissions from the site admin panel. In that case, these are the instructions that helped me. Install the Gboard app. Then delete the default one. I also set my keyboard to black before knowing that I could delete the default Apple Keyboard. That helped me know visually which keyboard was active. You can also set your keyboard theme by opening the Gboard app and heading to themes.

For photos, take the following steps. Place Google Photos app on your home screen. This continues our tools-over-drugs theme. Copy your photos over according to these instructions. You can try turning off iCloud storage for photos: Most people will need to pay for Cloud photo storage this is true for iCloud also.

Use Evernote for all note taking, to-do lists, everything If you already love your note taking app and to-do list app, then fine, stick with those. Install the Evernote app. Place it on your home screen. The case for Calm as your go to meditation app I learned to meditate from Headspace. Install the Calm app. Calm is good enough and important enough to pay for.

Find your way to the Open Ended Meditation in the Meditation section. Select one with a bell playing every few minutes my setting is for 5 minutes. Also find your way to the Breathe option in the More section. This can be a very effective way to reset your body.

I also prefer not having any background noise from my meditation app. Use Numerical as your default calculator After accuracy, the must-have feature for calculators is a history. Install the lovely Numerical app.

Put it on your home screen. This continues the your-phone-is-a-tool-not-a-boss trend for your home screen. Move the camera app to the toolbar. This means that the app will remember the last mode you were in, i. Also in Camera settings, if you have enough storage, max out the resolution on Record Video and Record Slo-mo. Install the BeFocused Pro app and put it on your home screen. These two hosts buy a self-improvement book and then test the advice for an entire month. This speaks to my heart: Rhonda Patrick pushes my understanding of the science of health, with the goal of improving your energy, focus, health and longevity.

Happier with Gretchen Rubin.

I find her approach so much more realistic and human than most other productivity and habit experts. Unmistakeable Creative with Srinivas Rao. Most of his interviews have a productivity or personal development angle. I often pull ideas from his podcast. Of course you should listen.

How to Configure Your iPhone to Work for You, Not Against You

I thought episode 2 was life-changing and have been hooked ever since. The lady-witch advisors, the Bene Gesserit, are what happens when you have fine-tuned mastery over habit. The Gom Jabbar test of humanity? An animal gives in to the illusion of pain; a human can see through that illusion. The Butlerian Jihad where humanity overthrew and then banned all artificial intelligence? Also, two behavior design notes: Install the Zero app. When you stop eating today, open the app and start your fast.

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Schedule Night Shift starting four hours before your normal bed time. Move the warmth slider all the way to the right More Warm. Here a quote from one study: We found that the use of these devices before bedtime prolongs the time it takes to fall asleep, delays the circadian clock, suppresses levels of the sleep-promoting hormone melatonin, reduces the amount and delays the timing of REM sleep, and reduces alertness the following morning.

Your medications and medical conditions would be public to anyone who picks up your phone. If that worries you, put a note instead: Then I tweeted about it. The more people who sign up for Organ Donation, the more likely your own life is going to be saved. So the selfish step here is to use your own organ donation status to encourage other people to become organ donors. A kind stranger finds your lost phone and calls your emergency contact. You have a life-threatening situation, and the doctors call your emergency contact. You influence someone else to become an Organ Donor and then they end up donating an organ to you.

The literal likelihood of this is very, very low. In the few weeks we had been dating, he had never spoken to me this way. He sounded entitled and difficult, like someone who enjoyed commanding for the sake of commanding. He would ask her to do things he could easily do himself, almost as if to prove that he could. There are three strategies for choosing a new name: Entertain the people around you. I got this idea from an old Hippie Cafe in San Francisco that named everything after an affirmation. Turn on Limit Ad Tracking. Max out auto-lock to 5 minutes.

Set your personal hotspot password to a three-word phrase Sometimes you need to share your hotspot password with a close friend or loved one. Set the password to something like appleduckmovie. Enable Access Within Apps. You might want to add some more options. I put my alarm and timer here since I use both and want shortcuts.

There will be a delete option there. Set alarm for tomorrow at 8am. Turn off alarm Remind me to check the oven in 35 minutes. Remove reminder to check the oven How old is Malcom Gladwell? Set up these Text Replacement shortcuts There are basically two keyboard shortcuts that everyone should have. I used the shortcut: There are still three more places to set: Also, Siri pulls your home address for your personal entry in your contacts. Principles Below are the principles that come up over and over again in this article.

Shave seconds to break procrastination There are a handful of exercises in this article that have very small surface-level productivity gains. Conserve cognitive budget From my piece on Superhuman Cognitive Stamina: Yes, your phone does impact your longevity By default, your phone is set up to create anxiety. The mid-level budget for the advice in this article adds: A pet dog for your wallpaper estimated from PetFinder.

I recommend a coach for forming a new habit picked from Inbox Zero or Set Priorities. Organize your Apps and Folders alphabetically This is how I did it. This is the most popular version of several wake-up goals in Coach. My definition is more focused on waking up at the same time every day, 8am. It starts right after taking the dogs out. This is my version of prioritization, which is to pick a top priority and make sure it gets done. I mark this off as soon as I open my laptop and create a journal entry for the day.

I mark this off if I can make it until noon without eating. Usually some mix of long walks, running, biking or swimming. Most often this is in the sauna post-workout. Updates Do you have anything to add or correct in this article? Added a strategy to create affirmation-style wallpapers in Instagram Stories and then rotate them through your Lockscreen.

Credit to Jonathan Howard. That makes it ill-suited for Interstitial Journaling. A number of people pushed me to try Superhuman as a GMail client. Their unsubscribe feature works with a simple keyboard shortcut and then takes the best available unsubscribe route, which ranges from clicking the unsubscribe link to just blocking the sender. I think gendered behavior toward an AI is common and socially implanted, and that you should start by just being aware of it.

A number of people have asked for an Android version. A number of people have asked for a Mac version. Reddit and some of the responses below poked the whole idea of the Google cloud. Here are a couple additional notes. Moving to the Google cloud is generally not more valuable than your existing habits. If you have a system you like that uses other services, then stay put with those services.

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Moving to the Google cloud does trade privacy for productivity. Google will use your data to advertise to you. As we grew older our minds became gradually disillusioned by negative external influences. At some point we began to hesitate and question our instincts. When a new obstacle or growing pain arose, we stumbled and fell down.

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Studies show that stopping and starting a task requires several minutes of refocusing. That is wasted effort and unnecessary frustration. Develop the Habit of Completion Getting clear on your commitment and finishing what you start allows you to develop the habit of completion. As you begin new projects in the future, you will have more faith in your ability to complete the job. Invest today in tasks and projects that have the greatest potential to add to your power tomorrow. Maximize Your Resources Think in terms of efficiency and leverage. You cannot wait for the stars to align before you begin your important work.

If the work is worthy of you, begin it immediately. Even if you take just one useful idea and use it, you are far better off than someone who knows 10 useful ideas and uses none. Know what you want, establish a clear outcome. Create a plan and take action! Be willing to refine and re-plan your approach.

How to Configure Your iPhone to Work for You, Not Against You

Repeat formula until desired outcome is realized. Take some time now to think about how you can apply some of these principles in your own life. What area in your life that you most want to control? What outcome do you have for this area that if realized would have the greatest impact on your life? When and where can you start taking action!?

The concept of using your time wisely is so important, after you have gone through the ORANGE formula a few times, this article is worth re-reading again and again. James Rick aka Mr.

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