We created this tool because in 2024, we will be on our phones more than ever.
Instead of letting them weigh us down with doomscrolling, distraction & procrastination...
Let's set a new standard for phone optimisation and get the most out of the technology that's so readily available.
I use this tool, everyone in our community is using it and now it's your turn...
Access the free tool HERE
FREE Mindset Webinar: https://www.coreyboutwell.com/mindsetupgrade
Join The Community Here: https://www.coreyboutwell.com/communitymembership
Make sure you listen to the podcasts all the way through to get your discount code.
We created this tool because in 2024, we will be on our phones more than ever.
Instead of letting them weigh us down with doomscrolling, distraction & procrastination...
Let's set a new standard for phone optimisation and get the most out of the technology that's so readily available.
I use this tool, everyone in our community is using it and now it's your turn...
Access the free tool HERE
FREE Mindset Webinar: https://www.coreyboutwell.com/mindsetupgrade
Join The Community Here: https://www.coreyboutwell.com/communitymembership
Make sure you listen to the podcasts all the way through to get your discount code.
This is the best video if you want to become way more productive with your life, especially if you're someone who uses your phone. It's 2024, right, and if you're in the ages next few years, we're literally cyborgs. It's not like we're going anywhere without our phones. We can just, instead of just plugging this thing into our brain, which I'm going to figure out yeah, we've got it at our hands. So if we don't take into practice setting up the right rules and having the right mindsets around our phone, it commonly controls us, like when we're sitting on the couch across from our partners and we're just sitting and scrolling on the phone, which looks really toxic. I don't know what you guys are like. I don't want to be the person who raises kids who are also glued to the screen on their phone, and where do they get their habits from? From their parents. I also don't want to be the person who is stuck. They get stuck in scroll holes regularly, like you know what it's like when you're talking to someone and they're just on their phone and you're like, wow, this kind of feels a little bit rude because you're on your phone right now and I'm literally just trying to talk and have a conversation with you and then you think about that and sometimes like shit. I actually do that myself too, and I really want to get rid of those habits. I don't be scrolling on me way more productive. I've got big goals. I've got a relationship that I want to have. I've got kids and a family that I want to just be like the best with. This, is it so? My name is Cory Boutwell.
Speaker 1:I own a community called Set the Standard Community. It's for men. We work with over 250 people. We do retreats and workshops online. If you want to find out any of that stuff, you can click in the comments below and if you do like this video, please hit that like, share and subscribe button. Give us a follow, because we are coming out with a whole bunch of different resources and tools that you can use, just like this one. So essentially, the reason that I created this video is that every single person who comes into the Set the Standard Community we figured out the very first thing that we've got to do with people to optimize them is clean their phones up, and we've sort of developed a system and a software. It's really cool Not a software, but a system that anytime I meet anyone who's a part of Set the Standard Community in real life and we're like talking and hanging out and they pull their phone out and go oh, my goodness, you must be a part of Set the Standard Community for sure, because I can tell from how organized your phone screen is and the rules and the boundaries that you've set for yourself on there.
Speaker 1:And if we don't adhere and obey to the boundaries that we can set for ourselves, that's just another way of being conditioned, like conditioning ourselves to become people pleases. The more we become conditioned to be people pleases, we put high expectations on others, we compare ourselves to others and we end up very bitter, angry and resentful, and no one wants that. And all can start and come down to your phone. So, regardless if you're listening to this or if you're just simply watching to this, I'm going to explain this to the best of my ability, but there is a YouTube video which I'm playing right now which actually go through and share my screen and run you through a tool that I have developed that you can use to make sure that you run through your phone screen. So, if you're listening to this or watching to this, grab your phone out because you can start implementing, as we're actually talking, and I challenge you, if you're not taking your phone out, take it out now, or watching it, or pause the thing and start doing some of these. Right, and don't get distracted in the meantime, because you might pause and get a message from someone and be like, no, I'm stuck in this, I've somehow got to the scroll hole again. Right, we don't want to do that, right? No more doom scrolling. So, essentially, the main thing that we've like what I come up with is, like you know, this is actually embracing some stoicism when it comes to your phone, and what we've noticed is like, just with minor, minor organization, we want to put all of our apps into folders. The less room and clutter on our phones, the best is possible, because our brains don't know the difference in stress, whether there's a bear chasing us or we've got 2000 emails regardless, we think, holy shit, that's a lot of emails to get back to and our nervous system goes boom, send stress hormones so immediately like, we feel super stressed out about that.
Speaker 1:So put all your apps into folders, folders, and you do that by holding down your main screen, holding down an app, holding it down until it starts wriggling, and then start dragging the apps together and label it something. If you can get all of your apps onto just one screen, you're at God tier, you're at like Emperor tier. If you're on, like you know, three screens, but like, if you can get everything on just one screen and just use widgets, you are an absolute God. I've got three. My phone is highly, highly optimized for productivity and we'll get into how you can do that. Number two is put the most important app into the nav bar, and if you're watching this video, you can see on here every time you click one of these checklists because this is the checklist that we're running over right now your progress bar updates, which is really cool, but you want to put your most important apps into the nav bar. The nav bar is a little bar at the bottom of your phone screen where all your main things are. So I have a folder with all my most important apps that are put into there, and the way to do that is to literally hold the bottom of your phone screen, hold that down, drag your most important apps into there. They're the ones like your text messaging, important stuff, your calendar, your not any social media, but anything where you know you have to get back to things Calendar maps, phone text messages they're like some of the main ones you put in there. I also put in like a biohacking thing for my brain, so it's got like brain FM. So I know I've got like some music that like helps me study and focus. It's really good. That app is like insane.
Speaker 1:Number three is install your calendar as a widget. So you can install it as a widget on the widget section. If you keep sliding left to your phone, it's like a widget section, or you just hold, once you get to the widget section and you hold down the plus button, or hold down a widget so you can add widgets. You can then add them onto your main screen as well, like to your home screen. So for mine, I use Notion, I use my calendar and I also use a calorie tracker chronometer on each one of my screens. So when I swipe across I can see how I'm going for the day, which is absolutely insane. So but having just your calendar installed as a widget is the minimum. So that way you can see what's coming up like every day or every single week and you just select the right one for you. You've got usually a couple of options. Usually one's like a square, one's a rectangle, one's like quite big. I like using the rectangle ones just because they fit and take up the most space.
Speaker 1:Number four turn your calendar notifications on. So that's so important. There's one thing that's like you know even Jordan Peterson says it like you can rule the world and become the most productive person if you just put everything into your calendar and hear it. So one thing we basically want to do methodology, and we do this at the stand, as we turn basically all of our notifications off except for you know, our calendar notifications and a couple others, but we're going to make sure that we've turned those ones on so we get them, so we know what to do and what's coming up. We can set reminders in our calendar of 15 minutes earlier or half an hour early. Now, if you're listening to this and you have not got a calendar, this is your invitation and I encourage you with all of my energy to get and organize yourself a calendar. People who are listening to this one in the calendar are like oh yeah, I've got a calendar and I know how good it is, and everyone else, honestly, is just getting left behind.
Speaker 1:Step five turn on all your app and message notifications off, besides the essential ones. So all your social media notifications gone, regardless of even if it is a business, and it is your business every time you have a social media notification because you have to get back to people, because you want to respond, because you've got to repair, because there's the temptation of jumping into the scroll hole, into that one, having a look around, if those notifications on there is this signal to your brain to adhere to, an addiction that we already have and we don't want to adhere to that. So you go to settings notifications. Make sure that we turn all of that up. The benefit of that is it reduces stress. It reduces so much stress. I cannot believe how much stress has gone when all your red notifications are just out.
Speaker 1:Number six turn your night shift on. From 5pm to 7am you go to settings display and brightness. This helps you soften, like your brain essentially, so soften the stress that your brain receives from the blue light coming from your phone. Not everyone does this and it actually blows my mind. You just want your phone to make sure it's got orange because it's better than no UV light, or it's better than having a little bit of UV light is way better than having a heat of it blend into your face. So every single day, from 5pm to 7am, my phone is orange Cool 7 step Set up a do not disturb. This is really cool on all your apps and people because so many people can message you from 7 pm to 7 am. It's so easy for us. We literally it's really cool.
Speaker 1:There is a science that Dr Rangan Chatterjee I'll show you follow him is like real big on YouTube, social media, all the rest of it and he created this terminology called micro stress doses and he did talk about micro stress doses and essentially you have this tank of willpower they have every single day and every little micro stress dose looking at a phone, having a notification, waking up to an alarm, pressing snooze, getting late to work, sending a risky email, calling a client, that's like you know, whatever it is that gives you a micro stress dose. Running late, noticing something's not clean, all those things build up and eventually your tank of willpower vanishes. So later on in the day, around 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 pm, our willpower is very low, sort of like if you've had a few drinks and your inhibitions is low. That's what it's like without willpower because we've had so much stress and decision-making during the day, so it's so much easier for us then to fall into a scroll hole. So we want to prevent that by putting in rules and boundaries. And this is so essential Do not disturb and unlock on all your apps from 7 am to 7 pm and that you go to settings and you go to focus and essentially like the best thing that this is done to me is every time I have to go into an app, I have to put in my phone code to use it.
Speaker 1:Sometimes I get it. I'm like I'm not going to use my phone code and, yes, sometimes it's a little bit annoying, but I only jump in onto my phone or that app specifically if I know that I have to use it and if I don't have to use it, don't use it, and it saves me so much stress and everything else. People can't contact me and most of the time, whatever the problem is, I get messages that are like I really need you for this thing and then two minutes later, don't worry about it. I figured it out and it's absolutely essential for everyone to have, and you also get present time back with your partner, like if you're in a relationship and you really value, value, presence and deep connection and high quality conversation, that's how you get it. Otherwise, damn, you ruin everything. So I'm pretty sure this is the eighth, maybe the eighth point right here.
Speaker 1:So you want to update all your widgets to be the most essential on your left hand side widget bar. So when you swipe across your main screen, swipe left, you go to the top left, you click the plus sign and then, naked, add in your widgets, remove all your other widgets, like remove all the bad widgets and then install the handy ones. Like for me, for example, when I pull up my phone, I have a look at my widgets. I've got a step counter. So I've got like potometer, so that counts like how many steps I've done for the day. I've got my calendar. I've got my notion with my most my favorite items in there. So I favorite my pages, the ones that are going to go into all the time. I have a calorie counter.
Speaker 1:I use the app Rise, which is a sleep tracking app that I pay for. I use it, link it with my ordering and it lets me know when I'm going to have my best energy. And it also, which is now, by the way, let's go. And it also lets me know when I need a nap during the day and also let me know how much sleep debt I'm going to have. So if you miss 20 to 40 minutes of sleep every single night, you're built on sleep debt. That's how people commonly get sick. It's got nothing to do with anything else other than their immune systems crash because they haven't been getting the sleep demands that their body needs. So this app literally tracks that. And then I have a another calendar app and then my Apple Watch app for how many like, how much tracking that I've for, like, my movement, my activities store score and stuff, which is really cool. So every time I go on here I'm like, wow, this is like so optimized and it's so good and I can see everything that I want and it's organized in priorities, so good.
Speaker 1:The last one that we want to do and take here is add your smartwatch as a widget, which is really cool. So, depending on where you're at, whatever smartwatch you got, you go and you can add in your swipe. They're going to app store. Download your smartwatch app, then go to main screen, swipe left, click the plus button for the widgets and then access it and put it on the screen. That is most important to you and when you go through and you have that, that is just another thing that helps you track and maintain your fitness. It's another motivating piece that you can see on your phone every single day and if you're someone that you most want to work on fitness, then you want to make sure that your home screen has like on the front of it, you want to make sure that you're for home screen has got fitness.
Speaker 1:Mine is making sure that my calendar is on point. Running a business and running people have a lot to keep on top of, so I have my most important tasks to do that are coming up for the day right at the top of my phone screen, which is really important. I've got a couple of my most important apps and then down the bottom it's hyper organized, which feels fantastic, absolutely feels fantastic, and I'll leave that. Apps that are needed to have notifications on are the only ones that have notifications. Everything else is off and it feels absolutely excellent. So that's how you use this iPhone stock. You go through and you wanna make sure you tick every single checkpoint on this bar here the other part of this tour, which I think is really cool, is just an essential app list so you can go through and I believe that this is one of the best ways to set up your phone. I use it for my phone and I think it's absolutely incredible. I'll just touch on these ones here. You can go through and crush these on there. I use my phone, but if you wanna do it with me, this is how you do it.
Speaker 1:One if you want a food tracking app, I like Chromometer better than my fitness power because it tracks your micronutrients. There's a lot of study and stuff that shows that the reason we get sick or the reason we aren't operating in our best energy and the best version of myself has got nothing to do with so many other factors. But it's all got to do with your micronutrients, not your macros not being a calorie deficit, just with your micronutrients. And if you're hitting your micronutrients that you're required daily, you're feeling credible. Number two is a sleep tracking app. Essential ordering and rise of pay, but they're so worth it. Track your steps using a step counter. I really like Podometer and, by the way, I've got no affiliation with any of these. There's not one for this. It's literally just what I use on my phone because I love it. There's a hack. My phone is elite.
Speaker 1:Step number four is notes, work and life in an organization app Notion. I love Notion. You haven't played with it. You haven't organized your life. I put everything in there. My mom used to have this huge at home massive metal filing cabinet with files for days in there. Notion does all of it. But I can also plan, organize, structure, track and see things so beautifully in this app and send it to people. It creates like websites that you can go on, so you can like take notes and stuff and send that page to someone. It's amazing Phone's original notes. I love the phone's original notes, how I use mine as I do them monthly January 2024, february 2024, march 2024. So, like I write all my notes depending on each month and then change.
Speaker 1:Another one is meditation app and a deep working app. I really love waking up and brain FM. Waking up some meditation. Brain FM's deep work Absolutely amazing. That voice noting in quick tasks is WhatsApp or Voxer. If you haven't used Voxer, it's a great app to just quickly talk to people. It's amazing An emotional intelligence app that I love using and recommending is called how we Feel you just go in there and click the emotions that you feel most of, track it for like a week or two and then it comes up and it lets you know what emotions are sort of dominating your life. This helps you become more emotionally intelligent. You can talk about these things with your partner or someone else, but it helps you more process those emotions so that you become more happy, your attitude is better and your mood is higher. It's literally incredible For listen to audiobooks, audible, love that Literally I almost couldn't live without it. I just learned so much with that thing.
Speaker 1:Business banking for people who value quality tech and simplicity AirWalletx Most of the apps I swear are going out of fashion for branding. Airwalletx is just so early. You never have to go into a bank again. Create as many banks as you want. There's no fees Like there's literally no fees. They take their fees from, like accepting money in different currencies and changing them over. So it's a new way of banking and it's so insane and the website is absolutely fantastic and they're just working on it so well. It's an amazing app.
Speaker 1:Then the last one is personal banking for people who value quality tech and dashboards. And that's up banking. I'm loving up banking Inviting my partner, the way they track it, the way that it has to creating bank accounts together and like all the systems and the savings and how they organize and have everything. It's so fun. They make banking fun and not boring. So they're the apps that I think are absolutely essential.
Speaker 1:If you have those, awesome. If you don't, you can go in and use this tool and this checklist to make sure that you've got them. The link is just below. If you want to download it, so click on that. Download it and away you go and extra. Just remember again, my name is Cory Bowell. Part of set the standard community, which is the men's personal development community for men. We have got hundreds of tools like this and mindsets and frameworks. If you liked this video and you want more of these, click on the subscribe or the following link so that you can get reminded every single time we come up with a brand new bang and piece of content just like this one. Big love, thanks, guys.