A few days back I removed all social media apps from my phone.
I signed out from all the social media websites from my laptop.
Why?
Well, it seemed like a stupid idea at first, but my wife insisted. She asked me to try it out for a few days, and if nothing changes, I can always reinstall them.
But did anything change?
Yes, it did!
Suddenly I had so much more time on my hands.
Initially, I found myself checking my phone every 10 minutes like I used to before. The only difference being, now there were no notifications!
Nothing to check, nothing to distract. In fact, it reminded me to get back to work!
The empty status bar on my phone made me realize what a colossal waste of time social media was!
Most of us have become habituated to distraction. If the screen is not glaring at us every 5 minutes, we would be at a loss of activity.
Checking our phone has become a way to escape eye contact, shy away from genuine interactions.
No doubt social media has been a boon for us all! Connected us, provided us platforms to showcase our talents and make a living from it.
Social media is not bad. TOO MUCH social media is bad.
We now live in a world where we are required to keep and promote a "personal brand".
We are required to tell stories daily - to sell our work, to sell out talents.
But in doing so each and every day, we forget to draw a line between the fiction of social media and our reality!
Our Facebooks, Instagrams and Twitters have become a place to inflate our ego.
We all crave for attention. But instead of seeking it from the ones that really care about us, we are looking for it from passing acquaintances and one-off encounters with "likes" and "shares".
Social media was also distracting me from STEEMIT - the place which provided me with a genuine platform to express myself, get great feedback and actually earn money!
I have paid at least 6 months worth of rent from the money I earned from steemit!
Yet somehow, I went back to the regular social media - for I believed it is required for me to be visible as an artist, to be posting something or the other all the time.
But all it was doing for me was boosting my ego and distracting me from real work.
At least on STEEMIT I have to work to make a decent post, think things through and make something of actual quality.
On social media, I was just updating random things which in reality no one gives a shit about.
No more now!
I have got so much work done in the past week. Most of my pending projects are either completed or near completion.
This is just a big wake up call for me and I hope to continue this throughout the next year.
I shall consider this as a resolution and follow it through.
Less social media ➡️ more work ➡️ more steemit ➡️ more earnings 😎
Have any of you tried going off social media? What was your experience?
Let me know in the comments.
