Mr. Number to your Rescue! Remember those telemarketers calling you just as you finish your dinner? I used to get them a lot on my landline, even after getting onto Do not Call list. Those dreaded, 9:00 pm dinner time calls are back! Now I started getting them on my Mobile as well.
[shareable text=”Where focus goes, energy flows. And if you don’t take the time to focus on what matters then you’re living a life of someone else’s design – Tony Robbins”]Where focus goes, energy flows. And if you don’t take the time to focus on what matters then you’re living a life of someone else’s design – Tony Robbins[/shareable]
These unwarranted, unsolicited calls are a big drain on your energy. They disrupt your ‘flow‘ and introduce unnecessary ‘switching cost’ as you are yanked away from the work you were doing. Often times you don’t know until you have picked up the call, and if you don’t pick up the call, you are wondering if you missed an important call. [For those of us whose family is overseas, we get a call from them and it shows up as a random number on Caller ID]
Mr. Number to the Rescue
I have found an easy solution, though! Call Mr. Number to your rescue!
On your mobile, just install this app and it scans the incoming calls. It scans each incoming call against its vast database of telemarketers and scam callers. It automatically blocks the call if any match is found. This results in you not even picking up that call and saving you that energy, the switching cost. More importantly, it allows you to stay in the flow!
Use this app, along with the Do not Disturb feature of your phone, and you have your own personal secretary (remember those creatures!) that is guarding your time, for you 🙂
[bctt tweet=”minimize the distractions + minimize/eliminating the switching cost = Hyper Productivity! #getHyper with Mr. Number!” username=”beyondCSM”]
[Updated on 27Dec2016]
We beat AT&T as well a Wall Street Journal 🙂
AT&T recently introduced an app named ‘Call Protect’. This FREE app promises to block robocall and all the other junk calls. Essentially, this app is powered by Hiya; the app we talked about earlier when we published our post. Here is the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) article talking about this app. Didn’t I tell you we beat WSJ ?!
[bctt tweet=”Claim back your valuable time! #getHyper” username=”beyondCSM”]
Please add this app to your tools, start using it and claim back some of your valuable time!
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