Put Your Phone Elsewhere Before a Practice Session
Whenyou begin a practice session
Put your phone in another room or beyond easy reach for the session. Keep any essential communication available another way.
Why it works
Clear reports leaving his phone in another room when he can. Reaching it then requires a deliberate trip.
Start tiny
Move it beyond arm’s reach.
What you’ll notice
The practice gets a stretch without reflex checking.
When it slips
You need the phone as a tool? Open only that tool and mute nonessential interruptions.
SafetyKeep urgent contact and accessibility tools available; do not move a device you need for care or safety.
James Clear, How to Make Your Future Habits Easy. Read the source ↗ (The Power of Priming the Environment; The Path of Most Resistance). Adaptation of Clear’s self-reported practice; cues, timings and wording are ours.
Growth: Practices that need preparation, a recurring slot or a useful tool.
