Here is how you can have a smartphone and enjoy it:<p>- Disable notifications from all applications that are not vital to your life. I enjoy instagram, but notifications are hard-off for me. I check it on my time.<p>- Turn off all sounds, period, only do vibrations<p>- Shift from being pushed information to pulling it. Only check apps, SMS, etc... when you want to check them, not when your phone buzzes or blinks at you.<p>- For loved ones, emergency access, most phones will allow you to define people that bypass this and will ring you.<p>That's it. Now you can still enjoy your awesome smartphone but on your own time, under your own intention, instead of someone else.<p>My phone only rings if my wife or family calls, and it only vibrates when I get an email. I keep it face down on another desk in my office, out of view, or sometimes in another room.