Building Better Digital Habits for Focus and Well-being
29mGeneral2023-08-17
Authors

Chris Flack
Course details
In today’s world, we’re constantly surrounded by screens and devices. For all their benefits, they can also have a negative effect on your focus, work, and general well-being. This course gives you an opportunity to audit your digital habits to determine what habits are serving you and what habits are leaving you feeling distracted and drained. Instructor Chris Flack guides you through the impact your digital habits have on your work performance and well-being—including the effects of being reactive to technology, task switching, information overload, and always-on culture. Chris explains ways to build habits to have a more proactive relationship with technology by being intentional about your working environment, reducing digital multitasking, building flow and focus, and simple tools that help build productive digital habits. Finally, learn how sleep, exercise, mindful practice, and work culture can help reinforce your new digital habits.
Skills covered
Well-Being and Self-CareProfessional DevelopmentOne-Off
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Your digital habits matter
1. Your Brain and Technology
- 02 - Learn to be proactive vs. reactive with technology
- 03 - Understand the impact of task switching on focus
2. Building a Proactive Relationship with Technology
- 04 - Take your digital habits inventory
- 05 - Upgrade your digital habits by changing your environment
- 06 - Strategies to reduce digital multitasking
- 07 - Leverage your brain s rhythms
- 08 - Upgrade your digital habits using simple tools
3. Increasing Wellness to Build a Healthier Relationship with Technology
- 09 - Build better digital habits with sleep, exercise, and mindfulness
- 10 - Upgrade your digital habits with a mindfulness practice
Conclusion
- 11 - Making new habits sustainable
- 12 - Create your plan to build positive digital habits
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