A helpful tool for practicing traction is the effort pact. An effort pact is a kind of precommitment that involves increasing the amount of effort required to perform an undesirable action. We’ve seen a host of products and services developed around helping consumers make effort pacts. A good example of this would be Apple’s “Downtime” function. If users attempt to access a listed app during hours that they specify, the phone prompts the user to take an additional step in order to confirm that they want to break their pact to access it. Adding a bit of additional effort forces us to ask if a distraction is worth it. What we come to realize is that most of the time, it isn’t. What are some other products or services that help us make effort pacts? #Traction #Indistractable #EffortPacts #Productivity …see more