Here is this week’s 1% MORE—4 short prompts using Mind over Tech’s M.O.R.E framework to trigger tiny improvements to your digital habits.

This week's theme is: 🧩 Connection

Mindsets and habits to connect with yourself and others, to be curious, and to learn in your digital life.

Mobilise.

a trigger to inspire motivation

Author Maura Nevel Thomas on the relationship between attention management and flow:

“When you change what you’re doing in response to every incoming distraction, you never get the quiet, uninterrupted time you need to get in “flow”—that immersive, highly focused state where you both do your best work and feel most satisfied by your work.”

Source: Attention Management

Observe.

an approach to gather data

Be curious about the quantity, regularity and content of the notifications you receive.

What do you notice?

Reflect.

a prompt to inspire change

How often do these notifications serve your current needs at the time they arrive?

How often do they increase your anxiety or distract you from the current task at hand?

Experiment.

an invitation to disrupt your digital habits

Take time to learn how to manage your notifications on a granular level and turn off as many as you can so that those you are left with serve a clear purpose.

Try this experiment

Each week we invite you and others from our community to run this experiment together. Learn from and support each other to realise 1% gains in your digital life.

It's free!

Accept the challenge

Until next week,

— Jonathan
Founder of Mind over Tech