What Is a Routine for Social Media?

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Routines are like an engine. If you follow a routine in a habi overtime, you will become a different type of person. I think i's really honestly the biggest distraction that we all face right now. And so what i decided to do is write a routine that said, what if you could control that habit and makear routiner only did it for seven minutes, and then you stopped. It helps you think about what am i actually doing? There's features in the social meniaps that allow you to save a post for later reading. That's where you can really get into a more f an intentional mind set with social media.

This week I had a great conversation with John Brandon focused on his new book, The 7-Minute Productivity Solution: How to Manage Your Schedule, Overcome Distractions, and Achieve the Results You Want. This was an excellent discussion on the power of taking just seven minutes out of key moments of your day in order to more effectively plan for your day, achieve moments of self-reflection, and remove oneself from digital distractions and ubiquitous media and technology that is robbing us of achieving our goals and living a more productive and fulfilling lifestyle.

John Brandon has written over 15,000 articles for major publications like Inc. Magazine and Forbes, Wired, Popular Mechanics, Entrepreneur, TechRadar, Popular Science. For the last 10 years before starting at Forbes, he wrote a daily column for Inc.com.

His new book is The 7-Minute Productivity Solution: How to Manage Your Schedule, Overcome Distraction, and Achieve the Results You Want

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