So about two weeks ago I made a conscious decision and made a specific goal in regards to my social media usage. You see, I am very prone to just take the random extra minutes I have throughout the day and just pull up my Facebook feed or browse things on Instagram. But those few extra minutes are easily prone to turn into 10, 30 minutes. And especially before I got to bed at night, if I open up any platform of social media as I'm laying there in bed, I'm a goner. It'll be an hour later and I'm STILL on Instagram...and I can't even really remember what I did for that whole hour.
So least to say, you can see what I wanted to change something. I've been trying to clear my mind and stay more focused on more important things throughout the day, so this is why I set new social media goals. I set the goal that I will only get on social media every Friday. I have also allowed myself to get on once in a while to post something happy I have found or to check my ward Facebook page. But besides that, I've done pretty well at staying sober from my social media-ing.
And you know what?! It's been WONDERFUL. Instead, I've re-established a love connection with the Family Search app for iOS! In my random minutes of down time, I flip out my phone and I go to the record hints and connect them to my ancestors. And shoot, did I get more done in one week of this then I had in probably the past three months.
That being said, it's not just the happy genealogy work I'm getting done, but I realized something very happy yesterday. The past two weeks have just been SO much better for me emotionally. I'm able to focus better, my life is falling into place and just the internal me is so much consistently calmer than really ever before. So as I was being thankful and wondering why the change these last two weeks or so, I realized a most-likely connection. My social media sobriety. =D I know it's not just the sobriety, but I do believe it has seriously played a role in it, and for that, I am VERY grateful for the little ways (like this) that the Spirit teaches me ways to improve my life and make me happier.
This is so awesome - good for you! One of my New Years resolutions was to not be on my phone as much (mostly because I was constantly on social media). I did the same thing as you... I'd go on for a quick 5 extra minutes that I had, and it would turn into an hour. I wasted so much time! It really has made me so much happier to stay away from it. I feel so free! I didn't realize how tied down it made me feel. It is hard, however, to stay off your phone and social media when you're hanging out with all your friends and they are all on their phones because they don't have the same goal. We just gotta get everyone else to do it, too!
ReplyDeleteI love this post!! Thank you so much! It just makes me remember what the really important things in life are. We can waste so much time on social media and not even know it, there are so many other things that we can be doing with our time.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed your post. Thank you so much for posting this! You're awesome!!!
ReplyDeleteLOVE THIS. Thanks for sharing your inspiration. I never knew about that family history app?? I'l have to look into it. I'm going to try to cut back on social media now too.
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