Daily time commitment: 3 - 8 hours
What it involves: Each day, you'll be blocking non work-related websites/apps that tend to distract you [your digital distractions]. For most people, this usually includes social media such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Reddit, Pinterest, Snapchat, or even websites like Amazon, Pinterest, news outlets, blogs, etc.
In the sign up survey, you listed all the websites and apps that you want to block, and selected a time-duration between 3-8 hours that you will commit to blocking them.
Instructions
Tips
Instructional video
What it involves: Each day, you'll be blocking non work-related websites/apps that tend to distract you [your digital distractions]. For most people, this usually includes social media such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Reddit, Pinterest, Snapchat, or even websites like Amazon, Pinterest, news outlets, blogs, etc.
In the sign up survey, you listed all the websites and apps that you want to block, and selected a time-duration between 3-8 hours that you will commit to blocking them.
Instructions
- On days that you are prompted to unplug, block/don’t visit those websites/apps for your chosen period of time! Make sure you avoid those websites on all of your devices.
Tips
- You may want to consider using some applications on your device/devices to help you block distractions.
- Example apps for desktops/laptops (both Windows and Mac) are: Freedom, SelfControl, Cold Turkey
- Example for Android: AppBlock, using "Do Not
- Example for iOS: The latest version (iOS 12) of the iPhone has an app called "ScreenTime" and settings called 'downtime' and 'app limits' that let you specify times of day when you want to block certain apps.
- You can also use features such as "Do not Disturb" mode on Mac OS and iPhones, as well as Android phones that block notifications and other interruptions.
- Decide a time of day when you'll commit to blocking distractions and set an alarm as a reminder to begin!
Instructional video