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Jethro Jones: Welcome
to Avision for Learning.

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I am Jethro Jones, your host.

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Thank you so much for being here today.

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I'm gonna talk about the phone fast that I
did yesterday and what that was all about.

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Yesterday I did a phone fast and part
of that was in preparation for getting

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the Apple Vision Pro this weekend.

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I am very much aware that
getting a new device I.

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Is going to take a lot of time.

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Doing a podcast about a new device
is going to take a lot of time,

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probably more than I want to admit.

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I'll be honest, it always takes
longer than I think it will.

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So I did a phone fast yesterday to
give myself a break mentally and

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physically from these devices that
I seem to be using all the time.

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First and foremost, I feel like I've just
been using my phone a lot lately  and I

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keep saying I'm using it for productive
purposes and that's all well and good.

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Am I just saying that or is that
really what I'm using it for?

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I think it's important to
acknowledge that upfront.

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Maybe I'm using it for too much and to put
some limits on myself to say maybe I don't

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actually need to use it for that much.

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I had a couple of realizations that
I wanted to share with you today.

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Number one, I've already started to
put some other things in place to lock

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myself in, as it were, and I'm gonna
talk about this more in a minute.

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So one of the things is creating
different focus modes on my iPhone that I.

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Make different apps on the home screen
when I'm doing different things.

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Like I have a whole work focus,
I have a exercise focus, I have a

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morning routine focus, and those
apps change throughout the day.

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Notifications change, who can get
through to me, that kind of stuff,

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and that has been really helpful
for me to find some focus and

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prioritization of what I want to do.

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Here are a couple things that I
found that I didn't really like.

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I've been thinking way too much about
the people I associate with online and

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what they think or how they feel about
something, and I've just been putting too

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much of an emphasis on that in my mind.

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I need to be better, so
I don't want to do that.

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i's one thing, number two.

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I noticed over the past couple weeks
that I've been using my phone when

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my kids are around a lot more and
have not been as present with them.

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And so I wanted to make
some changes there as well.

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and one other thing that I have
been thinking about is that the

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phone is on me all the time.

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It's pretty much always accessible
and I need to have some.

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Things in place to keep me
honest about what I'm doing.

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so that's one of those things.

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So let's talk about this lock-in piece.

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My daughter, as she gets ready for
basketball games or cross country

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races or whatever else she's doing,
she'll often say things like, I

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can't right now, I'm locked in.

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She is locked in and focused on that
thing that she is doing and preparing for.

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And over the past several weeks, as
I have been locked in and focused,

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I've lessened my time on social media.

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I've lessened my time interacting
with different communities online and

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overall, I've found that to be a overly
positive move in the right direction.

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So that's been really good.

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A second thing about that is part
of the thing that I think is gonna

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make the Apple Vision Pro compelling.

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I.

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For me as a productivity device is the
ability to lock in and say, when I put

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this thing on my head, I am in work mode.

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Now let me just share what I mean by
that, because you could conceivably

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get that and that makes sense.

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But what I've been doing for last few
weeks is I've been tracking my time using

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an app called Time and Time has this
little device that is an eight sided.

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Dice basically that you set with a
certain side pointing up and you can

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then see this is what I'm working on.

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And so I have different categories
put in there of whether I'm thinking

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or selling or delivering or doing a
podcast or whatever the case may be.

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And by having that physical
device sitting there.

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Pointing up saying, this is
what Jethro's working on.

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It makes it a lot easier to be focused
on that thing and to stay locked in

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because I see a visual representation, a
physical representation saying, this is

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what I'm spending my time doing right now.

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Now, do I have to have that?

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I don't know.

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Is it helping me?

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Yeah, it really is.

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And so when I think about the Vision Pro
as a productivity device, I have one other

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comment about that before I get to it.

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And this is, as I've been writing
my books, I have a playlist.

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That I use whenever I'm writing my books
and it's called my Awesome writing music.

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And when I hear those songs, it
gets me in the mood to write.

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So headphones on over the ear
headphones, preferably not in ear

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headphones or AirPods or whatever.

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But when I hear those songs,
they're not normal songs.

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They're instrumental, they're, by artists
that I wouldn't typically listen to.

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When I hear those songs, I know it's
time for me to write and I can be

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focused and focus for longer because
I know that I'm in that mode and

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that I think is really important.

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So now let's talk about the Vision Pro.

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When I put that thing on
and I get into work mode.

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If that's what I'm using it for, it's
gonna be a very clear indication to

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me and to people around me that I'm
getting into work mode if that's

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what I'm using it for right now.

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When I first got a smartphone and
I was able to do all these things

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on it, I was able to do that.

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I was able to use it for work and
use it in a productive manner.

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And I still use my phone a
ton in my day-to-Day work.

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I'm curious how this is going to be
with the Apple Vision Pro, if it is

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going to really help me lock in like
my playlist does, like this Ular

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device does, or is it going to be a
short-lived gimmick type of experience?

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And I just need better discipline now.

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I'm not arguing that I
need better discipline.

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I am sure that I do.

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But I've grown a lot in that regard over
the last year as I've lost 70 pounds and

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create a lot of new daily habits that I
just never thought I had time for before.

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And turns out I do have time for
the things that matter to me.

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So doing this phone fast was
an intentional opportunity.

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To see, can I be disconnected
and will I survive?

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Of course, I know that I'll survive,
but it helped me think about things

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in a little bit different way.

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One of those things that it helped me
with is that there's a lot of wisdom

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in budgeting our time, our money,
attention, our relationships, and

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it gives us permission to do those
things that we are budgeting for.

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I know that budgeting can be a frustrating
thing and a difficult thing to do, but

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there is real power in intentionally
budgeting for specific things.

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So one of the ways that I'm looking
forward to this is that during the day,

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at least during my workday, as I define
it, because I get to choose when I work.

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I am going to use my Vision Pro
as a work device and be focused

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and intentional about that.

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I'm gonna use it to lock
in and do specific things.

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I don't know what exactly yet.

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I.

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But maybe it's more writing, maybe
it's more podcast production.

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Maybe it's podcast editing.

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Maybe that will turn out to be a
really amazing experience on it.

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Who knows?

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That's part of what I'm excited to see and
experience when it comes to this device.

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What is that really going to look like?

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What does locking in really look like?

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One of the things that I'm also curious
about, I know that there are apps that

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are only designed for the Vision Pro,
but I also know that there are apps

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that already work on your other devices,
and I'm curious about how they're

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going to load on the Apple Vision Pro.

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This is something I haven't
seen anything about just yet.

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But I'm interested in that and
wonder what that will look like.

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Do I have to individually
identify what I want to have?

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Am I only gonna go to the app store
in the Apple Vision Pro, or will it

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be like my watch where I can load
those things on my phone and then

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they automatically go to my watch?

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I'm not sure what's gonna happen there,
but I'm looking forward to finding out.

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So here we are, just a couple days
out from getting the Apple Vision

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Pro and seeing what it's like.

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These are my current thoughts.

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I'd love to hear your
thoughts about it as well.

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Feel free to reach out to me with
any thoughts or questions, a vision

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for learning.com, and thanks for
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