Companion · No. 001
The Companion Workbook
Noticing · Redesigning · Replacing · Protecting · Returning after a slip.
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No. 001 · The Book
From Constant Scrolling to Calm Focus
A gentle guide for reclaiming your attention — for anyone who’s put their phone down and picked it back up before they meant to.
It’s not a willpower problem. The phone is a slot machine, working exactly as it was built to. This book shows you how to change the room around it — calmly, without deleting everything, and without making a moral project out of your own attention.
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What you’ll find inside
A calm path back to your own attention.
Short enough to finish in an evening, built to return to. No jargon to decode, no willpower required.
- Why it’s not a willpower problemThe phone is a slot machine — variable rewards, designed to be hard to put down. Naming that is where the relief begins.
- Mapping what’s actually happeningBefore you change a thing, you simply watch — the reaches, the triggers, the places you drift to.
- Redesigning the environmentBehaviour follows the path of least resistance. Small changes to where things sit do the work willpower can’t.
- What goes in the empty momentTake the phone out of a moment and it aches a little. You decide, in advance, what small thing goes there instead.
- Where the phone doesn’t belongOne protected place, one protected time — where the decision is already made for you.
- When you slip — and you willA kind, pre-written way back, so the version of you who slips has something gentle to return to.
From the pages
In the book’s own voice.
“You’re not weak. You’re not broken. You’re not bad at being a person. You’re holding a device that was carefully, deliberately designed to be hard to put down.”
“When you find yourself opening the same app for the fifth time in an hour, you’re not failing — you’re responding, in a completely normal way, to a system working exactly as it was built to.”
“The goal was never to use your phone less. It was to get your life back.”
“Attention is what turns time into a life.”
The companion workbook
Then do the noticing, in your own hand.
The Companion Workbook (No. 001) follows the book’s five movements with quiet, private prompts. Pages that are yours alone — nothing here asks to be shared or posted.
Calm Focus — Book + Workbook
Read it, then do it. The pair, at a gentler price.
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Get the Companion EditionIs it for you?
Honest about who this is — and isn’t — for.
This is for you if…
- You reach for your phone before you decide to.
- You’ve tried deleting apps and willpower, and it didn’t hold.
- You want your attention back without a digital detox or a monastery.
- You’d like to be spoken to like a person, not lectured.
It’s probably not for you if…
- You want a hardcore 30-day challenge with rules and streaks.
- You’re after productivity hacks to squeeze more from every hour.
- You’d prefer to be told you just need more discipline.
Read a little before you buy
The opening chapter is free, so you can hear the voice before you spend a thing. As an instant digital download the book is final once it’s yours — but if anything goes wrong with your order, just write and we’ll put it right.
