After reading an article on how multitasking kills your productivity&#x2F;IQ, I decided to take a step that&#x27;s similar: disable all my notifications. (I&#x27;m not sure how possible this is on Android, but on iOS it&#x27;s relatively easy) The only things I have allowed to give me notifications anymore are: calendar, to do app, and the actual part of the phone that makes calls. This gives me similar to what you&#x27;re saying: I have my phone available so that if something bad happens to my wife, I can react to that immediately, but otherwise it will remain silent so that I can deal with things in a more &quot;pull&quot; manner than having a million things &quot;push&quot; into my attention. (I also cleaned out most of my apps, because most stuff on iPhone is designed to take over your life and make you a zombie addict to them, and screw that)