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Digital Detox: The Ultimate Guide To Beating Technology Addiction, Cultivating Mindfulness, and Enjoying More Creativity, Inspiration, And Balance In Your ... Your Focus and Mental Discipline Book 3) Kindle Edition

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Take A Break From Technology And Enjoy Life Unplugged!

Are you addicted to your phone? Are you spending too much time on social media? Is the internet causing you to feel depressed, lethargic, and unmotivated?

If so, you need to do a Digital Detox.

More and more people are realizing their phones, laptops, and other devices are controlling their lives rather than the other way around. They're spending too much time with technology while their personal relationships suffer. They're experiencing greater levels of stress, a decline in the quality of their sleep, and chronic aches and pains.

But there's a simple way to regain control and enjoy a quieter, more relaxed daily experience: unplug!

Technology Addiction Is Real

If you spend a lot of time online, you may suffer from internet addiction disorder (IAD). If you stare at your phone for hours each day, you probably struggle with a phone addiction.

You may not even realize it.

Digital Detox will help you to overcome these addictions. This fast-paced action guide reveals how the compulsion to use technology negatively affects your life. You'll learn:

  • why it's so difficult to concentrate
  • how your phone is impairing your sleep
  • the reasons you're feeling so stressed
  • why your social life is in trouble
  • how your gadgets are causing you physical pain

... and that's just the beginning.

You'll also learn which factors and character traits are making you more vulnerable to a phone addiction and internet addiction. For example, Digital Detox explains how it's possible to develop an unhealthy dependency on technology based on:

  • your self-image
  • your work environment
  • peer pressure
  • impulsiveness
  • mental health

... and more.

Beat Your Technology Addiction With A Digital Detox!

Digital Detox also details the many ways in which your life will improve once you unplug from your devices. For example, you'll enjoy:

  • improved relationships
  • less anxiety
  • increased productivity
  • more free time
  • improved focus

... and that's just scratching the surface.

How To Do A Digital Detox

The last section of this action guide will walk you through doing a digital detox. You'll learn how to prepare for it so you'll be less likely to relapse. You'll also receive step-by-step instructions for making the most of the time you spend apart from your phone and other devices.

Lastly, Digital Detox will cover the effects you'll experience after you've successfully completed your detox. You'll also learn what to do afterwards to ensure your technology addiction forever remains under your control.

What You Can Expect From Digital Detox

Nothing is left to your imagination. Nothing is left unexplained. Every element of doing a digital detox, from the factors that triggered your addiction in the first place to the results you'll enjoy after setting aside your gadgets, is detailed in this action guide.

If you suspect your phone, email, text messaging, social media, videos, news headlines, and other digital media are overtaking your life, now's the time to make a change for the better.

Scroll to the top of this page and click the "Buy Now" button. You'll receive my action guide instantly along with details on how to grab a free bonus ebook.

Grab your copy of Digital Detox today!
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0781B16LR
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 14, 2018
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1.4 MB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
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  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ B09HG2GK4G
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Damon Zahariades

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Productivity expert Damon Zahariades is owner of ArtOfProductivity.com, a site devoted to showing you how to hack your day to get more things done.

He wasn't always productive. Damon spent many years in Corporate America, dragging himself to ridiculous meetings and enduring the impromptu "drive-by" visits of his coworkers, before striking out on his own. Today, he owns his own content marketing agency and creates action guides that show others how to boost their productivity.

Some personal likes and dislikes:

- Damon loves coffee

- he's less fond of soft drinks

- he loves dogs

- he's not crazy about cats

- he loves 80s hair band music

- he doesn't like country music

- he thinks he's hilarious

- his wife thinks he's slightly less than hilarious

- he loves movies

- he can't stand it when people talk during a movie

- he loves economics

- he hates politics

Join Damon at his blog at http://www.ArtOfProductivity.com and sign up for his ongoing series of productivity hacks via email.

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Customers find the book helpful in beating digital addiction and setting healthy patterns. They appreciate the straightforward, easy-to-understand advice and reminders about what's important in life. The book is described as an engaging and powerful read that doesn't get boring.

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Customers find the book helpful in breaking their digital addiction and setting healthy patterns. They appreciate that it reminds them of what's important in life and the benefits of doing a digital detox. The book provides awareness and tips for being more productive and having balance in their lives.

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"...then shows the high cost of technology addiction and the benefits of doing a digital detox...." Read more

"Very readable and practical advice to help those (and there many out there) who have succumbed to their 'digital dopamine dispensers' and wish to do..." Read more

"The reason I ended up liking it is that it reminds you what is important in life. Had good points in it that makes you think." Read more

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  • shoulders to the wind
    5.0 out of 5 stars This book helped me a lot.
    Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2020
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    I liked that this book was easy to read and a step by step book. It wasn't all technical and hard to understand and you don't get bored reading statistics. It was quite nteresting! I did my 24 hr detox and it actually helped me realize how much better I can feel and how it wasn't that difficult after all. I'm excited for my next detox. Read it, you'll love it.
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  • Sam
    4.0 out of 5 stars Awareness manual for productivity seekers who have been swept away by the addiction of constant digital connections.
    Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2018
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    I love Damon Zahariades' books. Digital Detox is a good review and awareness for folks who don't realize how caught up in to the digital addition and social networking and ways to put it all in to the right perspective to gain control and peace in their lives.

    For those of us who are network engineers and computer driven professionals, this book will be a bit of review and refresher for those of us who constantly seek to find ways to be more productive and have balance in our lives. I believe it is a bit more challenging to Digital Detox for computer based professionals, we can always streamline and prioritize what digital services are essential and which ones to weed out. This book compliments the rest of Damon's books and writing. My favorites so far, are the Art of Saying No (my favorite so far) and Time Chunking, great for those of us who constantly work to hone their productivity swords.
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  • djsugg
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great too to help you beat your Technology adcdiction
    Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2018
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    Damon Zahariades has written a very straightforward book on goin to to break your technology addiction. Damon explains what technology addiction is and how to tell if you are addicted. He then shows the high cost of technology addiction and the benefits of doing a digital detox. The last section deals with preparing for the detox, 24 hours of no tech use, how to do the detox, and what to expect afterwards. An important on one of the growing problems of our day.
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  • NIZAR N NAKFOOR
    3.0 out of 5 stars A Good Introduction, In Spite Of Redundancies, Contradictions, And Over Simplistic Promises
    Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2017
    "Digital Detox: Unplug To Reclaim Your Life” is a great resource for those who are reading about the topic of digital addiction for the first time and want a solid introduction to it.

    But for someone familiar with the topic, it might be a bit disappointing. Not because you will find nothing new in it. In fact it has many fresh ideas and is well supported with research findings. It is because it is full of redundancies and repetitions that could have been avoided.

    To illustrate my point, I will show how repeatedly the book covers the relationship between sleeping and digital addiction:

    In the chapter “10 Signs You May Be Addicted To Technology” there is a section or paragraph titled “You sacrifice sleep to spend more time online.”

    In the chapter “Top 12 Side Effects Of Technology Addiction” there is a section titled “Inconsistent sleep Quality”.

    In the chapter “How Technology Addiction Negatively Impacts Your Life” there is a section titled “sleeping problems”.

    In the chapter “15 Ways Your Life Will Improve After A Digital Detox” there is a section titled “You’ll sleep better”.

    In the chapter “The Effects Of A Digital Detox On Your Brain” there is a section titled “Effect #4: Better Sleep”.

    Not to mention that sleep issues were also repeatedly covered in many other related sections. The same repetitions are done in covering many other topics and I gave "sleep" as an example to illustrate. It is true that each instance is not an exact repetition and is approached from a different angle, but there remain many unnecessary repetitions in my opinion. To look at the positive side of these repetitions, they might be helpful to make the point for beginners.

    Other than the above, I think that the book is in many places over simplistic and even contradictory. For example, step #9 of doing a complete digital detox suggests reading a book and specifies novels and fiction books: “You may be drawn to the latest release on investing strategies, exercise and dieting, or how the brain works. But such books won’t do during your digital detox.” Then the author suggests ideas about something we’ve been interested in pursuing, but have put on the back burner due to lack of time and motivation. For example, learn how to: Code a website, Create spreadsheet graphs and charts … Analyze stocks. And then the author gives some ideas about topics in which to become more knowledgeable like: Thermodynamics, Anthropology, Macroeconomics, Primate Behavior, Philosophy, Theology…

    Well, if I am on digital detox and I have no access to the internet, and if I am not supposed to read nonfiction because “such books won’t do during your digital detox”, then how can I learn to code a website, analyze stocks… or become more knowledgeable in Thermodynamics, Macroeconomics, Endocrinology, Philosophy…?! And will I be able to learn such complicated subjects during a digital detox program of 24 to 72 hours done two to three times a year as suggested in the book? What about the other activities I should be involved in during the detox like exercise, visiting and meeting friends and interpersonal communication not to mention having a good night sleep.?! But in fairness, not all suggestions are that complicated and many, like how to make a flower arrangement or car oil change, could be learned without internet access or technical books.

    As for the benefits of doing a digital detox, they are well covered in the book. But it is over promising to say that we will enjoy those benefits after such a short detox program even if done more than once a year. I think things are more complicated than that. Yet these benefits are realistic and achievable but not as easily and simply as the book suggests.

    Taking the above flags into consideration, I still think it is a good book and serves as a solid introduction to the topic.

    Nizar Nakfoor
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  • Alley
    5.0 out of 5 stars great book
    Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2022
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    This book has taught me different ways to stay off my phone and to be more productive in my life.
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  • Jason P
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great advice in this book
    Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2020
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    Read this and regain some power back to own your life. You can be connected but disconnect as well. Very simple and powerful read.
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  • twalk
    4.0 out of 5 stars Useful information
    Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2021
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    I like the information given in this book. It doesn't really go into great detail about ways to accomplish going digitally free.
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  • Peter Rozanec
    5.0 out of 5 stars Practical Advice
    Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2018
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    Very readable and practical advice to help those (and there many out there) who have succumbed to their 'digital dopamine dispensers' and wish to do something about it. Highly recommend!
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  • Sandeep chatla
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for vieer
    Reviewed in India on August 27, 2023
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    Topic is good overall view on the problem and how kuch over-all i have to give to Ward's problems is we know From Here
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  • Anna of Owlcats
    4.0 out of 5 stars An interesting read
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 27, 2021
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    Well worth a read, as it's surprising how reliant we all are on being connected digitally.
    Personally, I live alone and the internet is my preferred method of contact, and I hate phones so my moby is always on silent and I don't have a landline. But the book has many good arguments for why even less online contact should be the norm.
    While the guidance given is of the "you need to do this" variety, I think its pretty easy to sift through and decide which areas you could prune to reduce digital interaction. I have definitely been procrastinating over thinning out FB friends...
    The thought of having a full break from online interaction doesn't at first seem too challenging. I'd probably find it otherwise when I do, but possibly I have a head start as I live without a TV or an online media subscription.
    As the book is available on Kindle Unlimited, if you subscribe to that, it's definitely worth a read if only for the curiousity factor. Who knows? You might take it further...
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  • Laura Campos
    5.0 out of 5 stars Nice reading
    Reviewed in Spain on November 12, 2019
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    Very complete book about digital detox and how to unplug
    It covers the topic with to do lists.
    I recomend this book
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  • Christian Strasser
    5.0 out of 5 stars Experience with a first digital detox (light)
    Reviewed in Germany on December 2, 2018
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    As I was reading the first chapters I was already following the first steps of digital detox. No more Facebook on my mobile phone! Last Sunday I also deleted my browser cache to make sure that I can’t log into FB unintentionally again. My first goal was to be logged out for one whole week. After the first days without my biggest distraction I started to realize that I felt less stressed. After one week I can say that I feel less stressed, my productivity at work is beginning to increase, and I am starting to read more books instead of wasting my time there.

    My plan is be more active in real life, and to communicate with people directly. For example, last Friday I played chess with my neighbor, and guess what, it was fun! I think that to be online and to forget the people around you is one of the biggest problems nowadays. We are starting to lose the ability to interact in the real world with real people. A digital detox is the right way to get rid of this new nasty pattern!
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  • bobloucks123
    4.0 out of 5 stars Wonderfully practical advice & Reasons
    Reviewed in Brazil on July 15, 2016
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    So, why only four stars out of five ? The content was well laid out
    and I'm inspired to read more on the subject and even other content
    from this author. However, the handful of links sprinkled throughout
    the book.... didn't work at all. Any of them. I was not surprised,
    therefore when the favor at the end of the book was to click
    "this" link and please leave a much appreciated review. It
    didn't work and mine seems to be the very first review of
    this book? Fix the hyperlinks and you've got yourself
    ...............................a very professional book!
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