Been putting my phone in the bedroom while I sit down to fill out applications. Started after noticing I’d open a tab to apply, check my phone between every field, then lose the thread of what I was even answering.
What actually helped:
– phone in another room, not just flipped over on the desk
– browser open to just the job posting, no other tabs
– draft the short-answer stuff in a plain document first, paste it in after
– close the laptop the second it’s submitted, no scrolling through more listings right after
The difference isn’t that I’m faster. It’s that I’m not reopening the same form again and again because I drifted off and forgot where I left things. The applications take the same effort, they just don’t eat the whole afternoon anymore.
Doesn’t fix the waiting part. Still checking email more than I’d like to admit. But the filling-out part isn’t dragging the way it was.