Overcome Digital Distraction | Reduce Screen Time, Phone Addiction, Improve Focus, Healthy Habits, Rewire Your Brain, Digital Detox, Digital Wellness, Time Management

28 | How to Turn Off Notifications in 5 Simple Steps Without Missing What Matters


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How often do your phone notifications pull you away from what matters most?

You’re mid-conversation, mid-prayer, or finally making progress on a project—then ping. Just like that, your peace evaporates, your body tenses, and your brain shifts into reactive mode. It happens dozens of times a day.

In this episode, I’m sharing practical ways to turn off notifications that don’t deserve your attention, without missing the ones that do. We’ll talk about what digital distraction is doing to your nervous system, your brain, and your soul and how you can start healing your focus one small reset at a time.

You’ll walk away with a simple Notification Audit you can do in less than 10 minutes. Whether you're drowning in digital overload or just need a reset, these five steps will help you turn off notifications that interrupt your day and steal your focus.

This isn't about being unreachable—it's about being intentional. It's time to silence notifications that pull you out of the moment and into stress.

What You’ll Learn:

  • Why constant alerts trigger your stress response even if you don’t check them
  • A simple Notification Audit to clarify what deserves your attention
  • 5 practical ways to turn off notifications and protect your peace
  • How to reduce digital overload and restore your focus
  • Why most alerts aren’t urgent and how to train your brain to stop reacting
  • What Scripture says about focus, presence, and guarding your attention
  • Resources & Next Steps:

    🔲 Get Brick: A Digital Wellness Device to Help You Overcome Digital Distraction. You just tap your iPhone to it, and it activates a custom focus mode you’ve already designed. Tempting apps? Blocked. Helpful ones? Still accessible. Want to learn more or try Brick yourself? Get 10% off with my link here: https://julianneaugust.com/brick

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    Get your free gallery of truth-filled phone and desktop wallpapers, designed to help you pause, reset, and refocus every time you reach for your device. 👉Digital Wallpaper

    Take the Screen Time Personality Quiz and get your 3-Day Digital Peace Plan - a free guide to help you reset your screen habits and reclaim your focus. 👉Screen Time Personality Quiz

    Want more tips on healthy tech habits?

    Check out Episode 5 and download your FREE Guide to Grayscale with step-by-step screenshots to turn your phone into a calm, less-distracting space. 👉Guide to Grayscale

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