Yes, yes - this probably sounds like one of those spammy link bait things - but I promise I just came up with this recently and it’s amazing.
You know the story - you have a split second of indecision of what to do on your computer so you click the Facebook, Twitter, News, [insert site here you spend too much time on] bookmark in your browser - and get sucked in.
So, for any sites you want to spend less time on, delete the bookmarks.
That’s it. From this:
To this:
You can always type the URL, but the added work does something magical. The effort of typing it makes it not worth doing in a casual way.
You can also make sure sites you want to spend more time on have prominent bookmarks.
Try it. I go on Facebook, Twitter and news sites way way less now. Used to be maybe 4 or 5 times a day. Now once every day or two (unless I have a specific reason).
I think this tells us a lot about human nature - make doing bad things inconvenient.
I’m getting hours more work done per week, literally. It’s amazing.