Americans touch their smartphones 2,617 times a day—a 'digital declutter' could help you regain hours via CNBCMakeIt
In a single day, we'll touch our smartphones 2,617 times, check email 74 times, and receive 46 notifications, research firm Dscout found. We'll spend more than three hours on our phones and tablets, 40 minutes on our home computer, and almost five hours watching TV each day, according to Nielsen.
Likely because even if they aren't feeling a negative mental toll, they are noticing that all their free time keeps disappearing and they can't leave their phone for five minutes. 2. Identify activities you want to fill your newfound time with so you don't pull that phone out. Maybe there is a stack of book you've been meaning to read, maybe you want to spend more quality time with your family, maybe you want to get back into painting or running or woodworking?
"One reason some failed was this notion of a digital detox," says Newport."They thought of it as just taking a brief break from technology before going right back to the same behaviors that led them to want a break in the first place. Obviously, people who thought of the declutter this way did not see much lasting change.""Taking a whole month actually has a detoxifying effect.
And finally, he says people grapple with deciding what apps and other technologies to allow back into their lives.
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