Honestly, a couple of months ago I turned off basically all notifications on my phone and stopped bringing it into the bathroom with me. It’s drastically improved my life.

I was genuinely surprised by how quickly I forgot about my phone without the constant notifications. I used to get notifications like every couple of minutes and almost none of them were actually important but it would trigger several minutes worth of doom scrolling, etc. Without them I just stopped randomly checking my phone. Now I pretty much only pull it out if I’m doing something productive.

And, like a lot of people, my bathroom breaks were starting to take 10 or 20 minutes while I scrolled through Facebook, watched a bunch of videos, checked Reddit, etc. Now, I’m in and out. I got like an hour back on my day by doing nothing more than just not taking my phone into the bathroom.

Two tiny changes that had a huge impact on me.