don’t delete social media. Try this instead

0:00 [Music] Would you skip one? Imagine how much your videos are.

0:51 You probably know by now that deleting social media isn't going to save you. But lucky for you, I know what will. Because social media is just stealing your ambition, stealing your drive, and stealing your goals. And besides, it just forces you to compare yourself with everybody else. And that leads to things like self-doubt, inconsistent mental health, and just low motivation. So, this is the exact thing that is going to save you. So, your life will get better when you realize that deleting social media doesn't work because you just reinstall time and time again. Now, here's what does work, and it involves a mental shift. the only thing that is going to save you. Because if you're like me and you had a massive phone addiction and you just noticed how much your phone was stealing from your dreams and the life you know you wanted to achieve and you

1:37 know how bad it makes you feel to scroll and lose your life and lose hours of your precious time on a metal box not even knowing what you're actually doing. So this one piece of advice will fix your social media problem and it's this. It's a mental shift that you can do today. It's not easy. It does require a little bit of practice, but once you have this into effect, your life will change. So the mental shift goes like this. You need to detach yourself, your mind, and the things about you from your phone. You need to start mentally hating and almost seeing social media as a disgusting thing. You need to mentally detach from social media and your phone. And you need to start to see these things as negative. You need to almost start hating these things because that is the only way you'll detach from them

2:23 and actually stay away from them. Because as long as you're mentally attached to social media and part of your mind still feels almost pleasure from social media and you still like it in a a certain way, you still feel like it helps you almost distract yourself, then you're always going to return to it. And the screen time blockers, nothing's going to work. Nothing. So, simply just change your mindset when it comes to how you view your phone and social media. You need to reconnect and reattach yourself to the real world around you, to how good life feels without your phone, without social media, and detach yourself from how good you think social media is. So, the whole essence is to just detach yourself and your mind from social media and view it as a negative thing. Convince yourself

3:08 that it's bad in all of the ways. And at the same time, you want to attach yourself mentally to real life, to detoxing, to to being free from your phone and how that makes you feel. So for further help and accountability with screen time, social media focus, and discipline, check the link in the description.