Brick on The Lazy Genius Podcast

And Brick stops that in its tracks. I have a schedule set on my Brick app for my phone where my most time-wasting apps, now those are personal to me, right? My apps that I get on and then look up and I'm like, where did the time go? Like Instagram and games and even some shopping apps, like don't get me on the Sephora app. Are you kidding me? I will be there for so long. Those apps automatically get bricked starting at 8:30 in the morning, and they don't unbrick until I do it manually. So in theory, if I don't unbrick my phone during the day, I don't really have access to apps that are not crucial, but do take up a lot of time. And that has been so amazing. I've purchased way less in the last few weeks because I don't mindlessly pop over to Sephora, as I said, or Amazon or something, and just get fed sales. And then I'm like, oh yeah, maybe I do want that thing. Like, I really don't. I also have the games on my phone bricked because if I have time to play games, I would honestly rather read if I'm going to do anything on my phone. It's not that the games or the shopping or the social media or whatever are inherently bad. But when I have access to them all the time, I get sucked into their siren song, which takes me away from the things that I care about more, which is why I brick them. Now, what's cute about Brick is if you try to open an app that is currently bricked, the screen says back to living. It's like your app is bricked. Go back to living. And it always makes me laugh. It's like a really great reminder because yes, that's exactly what I want to do. It's just made me enjoy my life more and notice things and not get sucked into the black holes of my phone.