Clear your mind and defeat stress, remove the application from your smartphone social networks
Productivity / / December 23, 2019
Have you noticed that the start bit nervous when your smartphone is too long away from you? Notice that you are constantly worried about what's going on on the Internet without you? You gets smart phone to see the time, and that's already flipping through Twitter feed. This habit affects your communication with friends and family, and even the clarity of your thoughts, but have an idea how you can get rid of it in a few weeks.
Many of those who are completely removed the Facebook and Twitter, will recognize this great event, had a strong influence on their lives. May eliminate the profiles in social networks - too harsh decision. They may even be useful to you for work, And why give up the occasional pleasure in them to look. But let's find the best way to interact with them.
Use the web version
Application developers are strongly contributed to increasing your dependence and develop in you subconscious habit to enter the application with or without. The game is called "Make the user how to navigate within the application can be more time." And they have win.
Facebook is constantly reports that users spend more and more application and more time doing the same Snapchat. As many eyes as possible on a longer time - this is the purpose of each startup.
And out of this situation - to use the most standard web version. To open an application on your phone, you only need to touch the screen with your finger on the Web already has some of the barriers for your actions. Remove Twitter, Facebook, «VKontakte" with the phone and open only in the browser, each time leaving the profiles when you are finished or entertainment. Password Manager should be disabled, too.
In this approach, two advantages:
- You will greatly raise the barrier through which the need to move beyond simply aimlessly flip through the tape. You have to open Twitter, login, and then another to read it in the not too pleasant web version. During the first few weeks you from unwanted calls in the social network will keep the login phase input: in those few seconds, you will have time to think, and whether you need to go there at all.
- You will no longer distract the push-notification. You really need to know immediately when someone mentioned you layknul or left you a comment? Most likely no.
This approach will help you do away with the thoughtless use of the smartphone.
Set strong passwords, and then hide them
After a few weeks you are likely to notice a problem: as you enter passwords frequently, You will do it no more hesitation, and waking up, suddenly find themselves in the news "In contact with".
There is an exit. Generate complex passwords 32 characters in any service, save, print and hide where you can find them, just do not carry.
Now part of the social network becomes a task that requires time and effort, and each input of these ridiculous passwords will be a reminder that you are struggling with a habit of interfering.
the application can not kill - kill notification
Notifications - excellent primer and the trigger for your habits: you can notice, look in the app, you get a reward, and the release of endorphins. Moreover, notice that captivate you down the rabbit hole of procrastination, they also violate the concentration. Studies have proven that when you need a distraction 25 minutesTo return to the previous problem.
The main reason to say "no" notification is that you do not need to know about everything going on at once. Huskies, comments and mentions on Twitter can wait.
Applications are doing everything possible to make you immediately enable notifications, but why would you agree with them? Now mercilessly disable settings everything notification, leave only vital. Turn off without hesitation! In the end, you can always get them back.
During the next week, notice how much more business you're done. You will surely be surprised that finally were able to read a book or solve a complex problem, which has long been delayed.
Customize the home screen smartphone
Remove from your home screen all the applications that you get stuck. This does not mean that you have in your phone should not even be interesting apps and games, but they do not appear before the eyes whenever you unlock the screen.
You only rob themselves of the smartphone breast procrastination, and one species of these applications will cause you to dive headlong into the senseless scrolling tape. Even if you have removed the main guzzlers of your time, you will discover quickly replace them, because you still need to so something pointless poskrollit. Leave on the main screen only what you need for work and helps to focus on tasks.
Breaking habits is easy
But in their place to create new and secured. Removing the triggers that prompt you to bad habits, and adding new triggers that remind why you need to get rid of these habits, you will increase the chances of success in dealing with distractions factors.
Perhaps over you will laugh and call reactionary because you are using the web version of the app when you have a smartphone. But you feel like a big step and now see life much broader than when constantly studded phone.