God’s voice rarely beats your notifications on volume. Turn some things off.

Attention is finite and the loudest thing usually wins it. Notifications are built to interrupt, and anything quiet, whether that is prayer, thought, or a conversation with yourself, simply cannot compete on volume. It is not a matter of willpower so much as a matter of what has been given access to you.

Choose one stretch of the day where the phone is in another room, not on silent nearby. Start with fifteen minutes in the morning. Notice what shows up in the quiet, since most of it has been waiting for a gap to appear.