In this episode, we discuss apps that can help you regain your time and focus, making you a better consumer, better investor and benefitting your mental health. 

Globally, we spend 6 hours and 58 minutes each day on our smartphones. Americans spent an average of 7 hours and 4 minutes each day. Annually that means we spend about 106 days every year looking down at our phones. You read that right, 106 days. Mental health experts say we should not be spending less than 2 hours a day on our smartphones. 

Here is the app we discussed at length in this episode. Opal. https://www.opal.so/

Also here is the study from the finance professor at Indiana University regarding the impact of mobile trading apps on investor behavior. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3765652.  You can open the PDF at the bottom of the page.