The one big addiction I need to solve

I recently got an email from MJ DeMarco and his Fastlane Forum where he had sent a video talking about quitting social media. Literally that day I'd been looking into cutting down on some of my social media, mainly Facebook. It was easy to delete the app from my phone, but unfortunately the Messenger app is how I mainly interact with my friends and family. I have turned off notifications from it, but I was alsways getting dragged into looking at people's stories, which was negatively affecting my mental state. I discovered I could just go and hide each person's story whenever they post which will gradually empty out that stories aspect.

But this video made me think about some of the other bits of social media I spend way too much time on. A big one is Reddit. I tried using the Screen Zen app to cut down on it, but I'd quickly get into the habit of just turning that app off, and loading up Reddit. This morning, I decided to delete it the app from my phone completely.

The really big one though is YouTube. I've always known that YouTube was mostly a waste of time for me. I even had three separate profiles, one for regular content (mainly football and history), a self-improvement profile and a third profile for the dumb drama slop that would occasionally draw me back in. My main aim of having these profiles was so I could do my best to avoid the slop, but I've always kind of known that pretty much all of the stuff I watched on YouTube was wasting my time. The regular profile would occasionally have skits and shorts that wouldn't achieve me anything, and the self-improvment profile is likely worse in that it gives me a false sense of achieving something, when in reality I haven't actually done anything.

So here's my aim. To pretty much quit YouTube. I can go back to it once a week, like DeMarco said he did in his video, if I'm wanting to learn something from it, but overall I need to be cutting myself of from it completely. It will be very hard. As I was writing this post I did start putting on some dumb video. But he managed to do it for four years and he achieved a lot in that time. I'm hoping I can do something similar. In fact I'm hoping this will geive me more time to get my video games completed, as well as get all the books I'm in the middle of completed, and most importantly get more projects completed.