I stopped using social media for a week to be more productive

I'm taking a week off and social media to see if it'll make me more productive. Some people take breaks for their mental health, or maybe they're burnt out creatively, or maybe they're just on their phone too much. And you can find plenty of videos all over YouTube where people share their experience. My personal goal is to be more productive. Not in the hustle culture meaning of the word, but just by not doomscrolling and just being more in the moment of whatever's going on. because sometimes it looks like I'm working on something, and other times it might just be relaxing. Here are all the social media apps that I currently have on my phone. And according to my phone, my average screen time last week was five hours and 47 minutes, which isn't super terrible because I know it's been worse, But I never really cared to pay attention to it. when you dive a little deeper, that's when you'll see which apps you use the most, or even how often you just pick up your phone. I know you may know this already, but if you were to check your screen time right now on your phone, would you be surprised? Be honest. now I could do the easy thing and just delete all the apps off of my phone. What I ended up doing was. I left the apps on my phone, and I turned off all notifications and reduce the allotted time for each app to one minute, since that's the lowest that it would let me do. I also didn't delete all of them because some of them I'm logging into multiple accounts, some that deal with work and I. There's a whole process of just trying to log back in to get access to it. I don't want to deal with all that. Don't worry though, I will be fully transparent about my whole process. So interesting enough, last night the SIM card in my phone just stopped working for some reason, so I didn't have any cellular service. This obviously helped, but it was kind of bad because, like Abby going with, if she needed to contact me, there was no way to do it unless I was connected to Wi-Fi. I will say the best part about that, I was I was just kind of forced to just be in the moment with whatever I was doing or wherever I was, and I was able to just focus on what was going on because I couldn't really do anything else. And I will say, I've been drinking this thing called Magic Mind, Which is a mental performance shot. And it's been helping me think better and faster while reducing stress because, as my grandma used to say, I'm too blessed to be stressed. I don't think she's actually ever said that in her life. But Magic Mind is just an addition to my daily routine, and it's 100% safe. Validated by doctors. Had over 200 scientific studies, has the highest possible graded matcha. And it's a long term game, meaning that you're not going to just take this for the first time and feel all of the effects is going to take some time. Magic mountain actually sent me some shots beforehand, so I was drinking this a couple days before this challenge even started. I personally want to be as focused as possible. So if you want to go try it for yourself, Go to Magic mountain.com backslash rally or click the link in the description and try it for yourself. What's interesting is that even though I had magic mind keeping me focused and my phone's like sort of working, I still out of pure muscle memory. I intended to check my email and I opened up, I think it was Instagram So to prevent that from happening again, I removed all the apps from my home screen because for some reason I didn't think that would happen. Today I was feeling it like your boy here was feeling productive. And I was ready to go. Even when I was doing some work at my desk, I noticed that I kept going with no problem, because usually, you know, I would take a break or I would need to check social media like intended to get something. But then you know how it goes. You get distracted and then like ten minutes goes by, maybe even 20 minutes hour for some people. And then you just end up getting off track. think the thing that I'm realizing more and more is how often eyebrows my phone during the dead time periods of the day, meaning like those time periods where you don't necessarily need to be doing anything or they're just too short to actually start something that you need to be doing. like this morning, for example, I woke up and started doing what I needed to do to start my day. Whereas before I would check all the apps and their notifications and maybe end up doomscrolling for about ten minutes before my responsibilities kicked in. or another example was when I let our dogs outside, or even when I'm waiting on my son's bottle to warm up. Even in the first day, it was a little eye opening to see how I spent my time throughout the day. By not doing something that I do throughout the day. It also did help that, like for half of the day, my phone was still kind of like unusable. But once I got it fixed, that's when, like, all the random notifications came in. I'm talking like ESPN, target, Gmail. I was genuinely like, dang, I actually enjoy my phone not going off all the time. It was like a mini vacay. Like I didn't have any kind of immediate responsibilities, or I had a legitimate reason as to why I couldn't call somebody back or text them back or answer them immediately. will say, I know I accidentally opened Facebook, but I immediately closed it, and then I immediately got frustrated with myself. Support your local Taco Bell. I've noticed a few things so far. I feel like I'm not wasting as much time because I'm not getting distracted as much as I normally am. And I also feel like I'm not as tired as I normally am. still getting the same amount of sleep, like the 6 to 7 hours of sleep or whatever, but that like 2 to 4:00 afternoon period. I don't feel tired, like I usually do. Now I do credit magic mind. But it could also be the fact that because I'm not looking at my phone as much, I'm not having that screen eye strain or whatever on my eyes. And so maybe that has some kind of effect of my non tiredness. Or maybe it's a blend of the two. I don't know. What app on your phone do you think is the most. And how often do you think you use your phone? I know that I'm somewhere around two hours a day on screen time. Oh, yeah. Check it right now. Oh. Oh, Screen time. Let's see. Okay. Okay. Three max. Oh, let's see it. Oh two, three. Is that just today? Or is that. It says daily average. Okay. hour and 30 on what you do. Yeah. Amen to. How was I watch do you watch it? Do you watch it at night? Like, do you go to sleep? Yeah, use your iPad I bet. And I have two iPhones. See. So so so wait there's a way to break the system okay. You have you have your phone content time right. You have your iPad time. So like me, I have an iPad mini that I'll use next to my bed. But I also watch YouTube videos on my iPad Pro. Right. And those are probably also low. But you can spread out. You got out of all that, does that make you feel better? Yes. It it's kind of like don't put all your eggs in one basket. You meet all your time in one basket. Don't put all your time in a basket. So really it's probably five hours just like mine. No wait don't a quick no no no your phone if your phone is what was it, two hours. Two hours, no more than two. And then you watch YouTube on and but it's YouTube. Consider social media. well, another video. That's a whole my day job involves me working with cameras and such. And so we were talking about like, where do you draw the line with social media in YouTube? Because we have cases where we need to look at a video to figure out how to use it, a piece of equipment, or how to do this or that, or if we are considering buying something, we need to research that thing. So what we decided was that as long as you're not watching for entertainment purposes and reading or responding to comments, then you're good. Because we all know how easy it is to go down the YouTube rabbit hole. I mean, what do you think? Though? You can apply the same concept to Instagram and TikTok, but it's not the same in my opinion. Does YouTube count as social media just as much as the others? I mean, either way, YouTube and YouTube studio are two of the apps that I've been avoiding, so I don't know. I really need to go get my hair done. This is atrocious. Oh, my journey of being more focused. I, unfortunately didn't get to take my magic mind shot until later in the morning. But I still took it But you know, those moments where, like, your poor planning comes back to bite you. Well, as I'm making this video, my previous video is scheduled to upload this Saturday. And in that video I said this. So if you want to see that video on how it came out, head on over to my Instagram or TikTok to see it. Also let me know that you came from YouTube, The issue is I didn't edit that social media video until this week. So what I did was screen record to show you that all I did was go and upload it. Schedule my Instagram post for further proof. You'll see that this video was 3.5 minutes long. And my screen time shows that I was on Instagram for three minutes. No browsing included. And honestly, I didn't really have a desire to, just realize I didn't upload it to Tick Tock. All right. I'm not going to do that. Probably. What's interesting, though, is that I've been able to just focus a lot more on things. And, you know, I do credit the magic mind to that. Some. you might be thinking like, how does social media affect your running? Well, I think just like not worrying about things and just my mind being clear are more clear. Like even something as small as, like, you know, after I run, I usually posted on Strava or one of my running groups, but somehow that's making me not worry about my pace so much. And maybe that's going to make me train better just for this upcoming week. And hopefully I carry that on like later on. But what I was really like, how does that make sense? I'm out of breath trying to explain this. There are things that I could have done to make this process easier. Like watching TV shows or playing video games. But the reality is, I did this to be more productive. Sometimes, while watching TV, I'll be on my phone thinking I can multitask, when in reality I'll end up missing what was said or happened. I won't even, like, be on social media or anything, but I'm it's just another moment where I realize how often I use my phone. And this shouldn't be amazing, but it's just it is. But it's also interesting. I will say the hardest thing about today was knowing that my schedule video went public and not looking to see how it was doing, or if it had any comments. I mean, it was really a it's a good thing really, if you think about it. We're going to go Mike in the hand for the last day, which wasn't that bad, to be honest. I wasn't really eager for the day to end or anything. But as I went through the day, I was just thinking of how this will hopefully impact me as the days go on and things go back to normal. And I'm not doing this for a video or anything. I have a better mindset of how much I spend or waste my time. And you pair that with something like magic mind. My focus went through the roof. Don't forget, if you want to try magic to increase your mental performance, go to magic.com backslash rally and get you some. Okay. here are my official screen time stats overall. And here are the stats for each social media app. Also, I think this was the first time in a very, very, very, very long time, or if ever, that my screen time has been lower than Abigail's. That's my wife. think on average it takes 21 days to develop a habit. And even though this was in 21 days, the past seven days, I realized some things that I could change in my own life regarding my phone and just being in the moment and being aware or just being more present. I would encourage you to take a step back, maybe do something similar or the exact same thing and let me know how it goes. Sunday morning news quickly turns to afternoons. It's like that. I can barely go and catch it. Kinda how I feel when you.