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  • The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life
  • Written by: Catherine Price
  • Narrated by: Emily Rankin
  • Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (32 ratings)

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How to Break Up with Your Phone

Written by: Catherine Price
Narrated by: Emily Rankin
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Publisher's Summary

Packed with tested strategies and practical tips, this book is the essential, life-changing guide for everyone who owns a smartphone. 

Is your phone the first thing you reach for in the morning and the last thing you touch before bed? Do you frequently pick it up “just to check”, only to look up 45 minutes later wondering where the time has gone? Do you say you want to spend less time on your phone - but have no idea how to do so without giving it up completely? If so, this book is your solution.

Award-winning journalist Catherine Price presents a practical, hands-on plan to break up - and then make up - with your phone. The goal? A long-term relationship that actually feels good.

You’ll discover how phones and apps are designed to be addictive, and learn how the time we spend on them damages our abilities to focus, think deeply, and form new memories. You’ll then make customized changes to your settings, apps, environment, and mindset that will ultimately enable you to take back control of your life.

©2018 Catherine Price (P)2018 Random House Audio

What the critics say

"A slim, insight-packed volume that's both a primer on the toll smartphone overuse can take on our mental and physical health, and a practical manual for a 30-day reset designed to put you on a path to moderation, this is a book whose message couldn't feel more timely, or more urgent. (No, really: after finishing the whole thing in one horrified sitting, I immediately pre-ordered 3 more copies for friends and family.)" (Sarah Karnasiewicz, Health)

"The most important book I've read in years. Life-changing." (Sali Hughes, The Pool)

"...a comprehensive, step-by-step solution to spending less time with your phone and more time doing the things you love." (Booklist)

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Everyone should read this book!

This book is an easy read, very friendly and simple, yet its message is potentially life changing for any digital users. It brings awareness to something which has gradually invaded an important part our lives and yet for most this invader has remained mostly unquestionned.

According to the latest study, people spend an average of 3.25 h per day on their smart phones. But spending even 1 hour per day imo warrants questionning if this is time well spent. This book helps people answering this question for themselves and also if they decided to revisit their relationship with digital devices , the author provides a step by step way to become a true user of technology vs mindlessly getting caught in the webs of it.




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Loved it

This book is great for anyone who is longing to enjoy a more fulfilled life by using technology instead of letting technology use them. After listening through, I purchased the hard copy of the book to solidify some of the exercises in my head and implement them in my life.

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useful and clear

easy and refreshing listen. very clearly communicated with useful book and app recommendations.

would recommend to everyone just to reflect on aspects of phoned that we don't think about much .... yet.

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Inspiring!

I was already a few steps into this 30 day plan when I started. As in already using some techniques listed ( deleting social media apps, using an app-tracking software, not bringing it out around friends, etc)

I didn’t do the 30 day program but it did give me the motivation I needed to address my biggest concerns around using my phone.
It has added to my knowledge and awareness and if you think you could be spending too much time on your phone then you should give this a shot! Even if you feel like you don’t, it still has some great information.

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