WARNING, DISTRACTIONS GUARANTEED

No (non-psychotic) human can resist the temptation to bow down to our notification inbox, mindlessley scroll through instagram, open every single snapchat story or get engaged in the heated exchange of gossip in a whatsapp group chat.

If you can honestly sya, hand on heart, you could leave your phone, unmuted, and not glance at your screen for two hours, then you are kidding yourself! Even on mute, the screen deviously lights up and airplane mode does not lock you out of texting and offline games.

A solution to this issue is to voluntarily permit your parent to take your phone hostage until you get your work done - but realistically, this could be paic-attack inducing - can you imagine if they managed to crack your password, and took a browse out of interest!

My method to having excellent self-control is to admit that you have none and instead, install an app that does the hard work for you. I wish I could say this is sponsored,but it just isn't, I just genuinely highly recommend downloading the app 'Forest' - available on iTunes, Google play store and Android  (this seriously sounds like a plug!).

Not only are the app's graphics incredibly aesthetic, the trees you have to plant are strangely adorable, and you feel so productive at the end of the day, looking back at your forest of virtual trees. To plant one, you select the tree species you wnat to grow, then set a timer depending on how long you want your phone-free session to be. The limit is up to 2 hours, and minimum is 10 (but tbh why even bother if you can only manage 10 mins! Seriously!). You then turn your phone off until it pings to tell you that you've suceeded.

During the cultivating time, if you exit the app to open something else e.g. to check snapchat, your tree will wither and die. So what? Who cares, its a stuppid virtual tree? Trust me,  there is nothing more soul destroying than poor withered stump in your otherwise blossoming forest, that reminds you of your failure.

I believe it cost £0.99, I seem to remember paying less when I first got it, but I promise you, the investment of a quid, for hours worth of productive, distraction-free study time, is entirely worth it!

(Otherwise, I would recommend reverting back to the Confiscation by Parent method).