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      <title>Speed up Your Dopamine Fast with The Focus Box</title>
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            Dopamine fasting, or abstaining from the addictive activities that give you quick, cheap, bursts of dopamine, is all the rage right now.
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           However, it's not the easiest thing in the world to do. 
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           In fact, social media and other addictive tech applications are the number-one culprits of dopamine issues, and getting away from it can be just as difficult as watching paint dry for three days straight. 
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           Luckily, our new Focus Box can help with this process and help you break your dopamine addiction to the most common, and often most consistent, dopamine provider: Phone-based tech. 
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           Let's talk about it. 
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           What Exactly is Dopamine Fasting? 
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           Before we get into how the focus box helps, let's go over a quick breakdown of what dopamine fasting is. 
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           Dopamine fasting is when you abstain from quick dopamine releases when you notice you've become a bit dependent on them. For some, this means abstaining from sex or gambling, and for others, it can simply mean dropping cheeseburgers or Facebook. It all depends on what you use daily to get your dopamine fix. 
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           Dopamine fasting helps reset your brain and helps you learn to live a more balanced life without constantly thinking of your dopamine addiction.
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           How does The Focus Box Help with Dopamine Fasting?
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           While there are various types of dopamine fasts, social media addiction is the most common problem people try to solve with one. 
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            This is because of how prevalent social media is in everyone's life.
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            Just think about it for a minute.
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             Do you find yourself checking your phone's notifications every five minutes just to see if someone liked that snappy post you made an hour ago?
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             How often do you spend scrolling up and down your newsfeed just looking at the same posts?
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           Those are the habits people want to break with dopamine fasting. 
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           You can do that without The Focus Box by simply turning your phone off and refusing to turn it back on, but that forces you to miss high-priority calls and other things that might negatively impact your life if they aren't attended to. 
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           The Focus Box allows you to eliminate those bad habits without potentially sacrificing major phone calls and notifications from high-priority apps or people. 
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           This is because you place your phone into The Focus Box where it is completely hidden from view. If you get an unimportant notification, nothing happens. Your phone is simply out of sight and out of mind. However, when you get a notification you really do need to see, the Focus Box lights up. 
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           Yes, you might catch yourself glancing at the Focus Box quite often the first day or two, but that's far less time-consuming, and it makes it a lot less tempting for you to dig in there and check your notifications. 
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           The Focus Box Will Make Your Dopamine Fast a lot Easier
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           The Focus Box helps you tackle one of the most difficult parts of most dopamine fasts. Whether social media is just a small part of your fast, or if it's your primary concern, it has the power to make the frustrating process of fasting go by with ease. 
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           Take back your life. Kick over-usage of social media to the curb, and find out what all the hype's about with The Focus Box.
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      <title>Why Use Kickstarter to Grab Your First-Edition Focus Box?</title>
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           Social media and smartphones have been dominant for two decades, now. We've all used social media at one point or another, and most of us still use it today. However, we're sure that you're starting to notice how distracting and intrusive it can be. We sure have. So, we created The Focus Box to help keep smartphone usage under control and take our lives back. 
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           The Focus Box is a one-of-a-kind isolation chamber for your phone. It lights up when you receive important notifications (that you get to choose), charges your phone wirelessly, and brings the beautiful elegance of Scandinavian, wooden décor into your home. 
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           This all comes together to make your phone a less distracting device so you can work, spend time with your family, or simply enjoy the little things without your phone constantly annoying you. 
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           However, we can't bring it to market by ourselves. We need your help to bring this life-changing device to consumers around the world, and that's why we've taken our funding efforts to Kickstarter. 
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           What is Kickstarter and How Does It Help The Focus Box?
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           Kickstarter is a reward-based crowdfunding platform that lets people just like you support cutting-edge startups like us. It's a way to bring inventors, developers, and more together with their consumers in a meaningful way, and for many startups, it's the only way to bring innovative products to the market. 
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           For us, Kickstarter helps us get the capital necessary to "kickstart" production on The Focus Box and sell it to consumers just like you. It lets you decide if The Focus Box is something worthy of coming to market, or if it's dead on arrival. Luckily for us, the consumer market has already shown a massive outpouring of support, and we're getting closer to our funding goal every day. 
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           Kickstarter isn't just beneficial for us, though. It also lets us reward our pre-production supporters through a tier system. When you donate, you qualify for one of our several reward tiers. These tiers come with unique perks that you usually don't get for buying a product, and once The Focus Box hits the market, these perks will be gone forever. 
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           Finally, it allows you to be one of the first adopters of our life-changing technology. You don't have to wait around for second, third, or even fourth manufacturing runs to get your hands on The Focus Box and start enjoying the offline world; you get to be one of the first: A pioneer in the modern offline lifestyle. 
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           We know what you're thinking. Can you trust an online platform with donations for a product that isn't in production, yet? Well, yes. Yes, you can. 
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           Kickstarter is one of the most reliable and trustworthy crowdfunding platforms available, and it's been used to fund some of the products you probably already use. Have you ever gone looking for a new card game for game night and came across Exploding Kittens? The quirky cult phenomenon is only around because of Kickstarter. The same goes for Pebble smartwatches and Bragi earbuds. With a bit of help from you, The Focus Box can join the long list of beloved products that got their humble beginnings on Kickstarter. 
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           This is because Kickstarter has gone the extra mile to protect its users. Each project is vetted to ensure that there's a functional prototype and proof of concept. This ensures that only serious inventors bring their creations to the platform. 
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           On top of that, the platform is heavily regulated to ensure your funds are put to use properly, and there are safety measures in place that keep malicious scammers from stealing your donations or using them for irrelevant means.
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