I turned around, but by the time I made it home, I knew I had a problem. Just a few years before, I rarely had my phone with me and if I did, it wasn't seen as the ultimate trip companion.

 

I looked deeper into my life and I realized that the creative work, deep connections, and rich, soulful, emotionally fulfilling life that I longed for seemed stuck in distraction and chronic dissatisfaction.

 

Parents in my life seemed the most distraught. They were stuck with the need for connection, along with seeing how technology sucked in their kids and never seemed to let go. How could they be good examples to their kids when they had their faces stuck in screens too?

 

I had this sense that something wasn't right. I'd taken digital detoxes and sabbaticals and done every tip and trick to be more productive and focused, but nothing stuck. The social media apps crept back on my screens.

 

All the tips and tricks that I tried worked for a bit and then stopped. The call of technology was so strong that I felt like I wasn't in control. I realized it's not what to do but how to do it that makes permanent lifelong change possible.

 

Marilyn Paul is an expert on attention, organization, and distraction. Dave Conley created the distraction problem at AOL in the 1990s. Together we started our journey of self-discovery that continues to improve our lives every day.

• Liberate hours a day to live a wholehearted life.
• Create cognitive space for deep, creative, and important work.
• Clarity, focus, energy, and feeling in charge of your life
• Stop reacting and start doing.
• Empowering and improving relationships with your children
• Improve sleep, health, and mood.

In our free 30 minute master class, you'll set your personal plan to tame your tech tools, get a list of curated tips to get you started, and an invitation to our three-part solutions workshop with a program based on human behavior, neuroscience and psychology coupled with our work on attention and distraction. This is everything you need to change your relationship with your phone and computer. Live a life of your values and your dreams, not the dreams and values of Facebook, Google, and Twitter.