Social media can be a place for huge success and there is a lot of information that backs that up while it can help people gather an adequate amount of knowledge along with getting an abundance of ideas for showing the world their creativity, but then when the addiction kicks in, it completely transforms their lives. And at the time they realize and try to control the situation, and it doesn’t work, at a point, they certainly give up and surrender themselves to the social world.

When you look at famous people on social media; it’s obvious you may or may not willingly develop a catch in mind, feeling the urge of being like them. While you continue the process, instead of doing something creative, you start getting inadequate feelings about yourself and sometimes about your life too.

You know that people always want their best looks to be shown in the world and not what their real life is like. Everyone’s life is more or less complicated, full of problems, but would they show others how problematic their lives can be? No right? Maybe yes in some cases. But why bother even doubting yourself and your qualifications? Ignore them. Show respect for yourself. Know that if what they are showing is good, then realize you can make your life amazing. It all just starts and ends in your mind.

Getting rid of this problem might be hard, but I have brought 4 proven ways that can boost your energy and by following them you can maximize your time.

Before I go further, I want to make sure you shortly get the main points of resisting from social addictions:

1. Create a private account with only close ones.
2. Clarify the most important task,
3. Add screen timing
4. Stop comparing and start acting

Follow these simple rules. They will help you by leading you to an amazing lifestyle. Now let’s dive deep into the topics.

1. Create A Private Account:

Unless you have superhuman willpower, it’s merely impossible to totally aside yourself from socials. You might have important groups and people with whom keeping contact is a must. So what should you do? Keep socials while frustrated over your phones unable to stop the interrupting notifications that keep coming? Well no. You can always keep yourself private and hard to reach from unimportant people. You can give your personal account to only those who hold value while distracting yourself from the world of people.

2. Clarification:

Identifying the most important task is highly effective. This is the simplest yet effective way out there to be productive overall in life. Not all tasks are important. Many get confused in valuing the tasks that are necessary to be done. We work passively and hard which results in no result. Working actively and smartly is a way for achieving more productivity in less time. 

Here are some ways to identify the most important tasks:

• Define your goals
• Consider the impact and value of the work
• Trust your intuition and get to work
• Maintain a to-do list
• Evaluate urgency and importance 

3. Add Restrictions:

As human beings, we have the tendency to expect the maximum of output by giving less input. We expect most of the change in the least amount of time. But we are designed to get the most expected output only after working for something while making them an autonomous habit. Now forming a habit is one of the hardest things but with proper guidance, it’s easy to achieve it which will further help you in the long run. 

Now breaking an addiction is hard so it’s important to maintain boundaries. Creating app restrictions, and app limitations can help you in this case. Apps like FamiSafe, Ourpact, or just your phone’s normal ScreenTime can provide you with multiple features to control your app time. All you have to do is to activate and abide by it.

4. Stop Reconsidering And Start Acting:

I ask myself a lot of the time why we reconsider things so much that later it’s nearly impossible for us to act towards what we exactly want to do. For example, forming a better habit. We keep reconsidering and postponing things repeatedly until we lose the motivation to do it. The reason behind rethinking is lacking confidence. We fear positive changes because we’re so comfortable with the present state that we might not want to give that up even after knowing how problematic it might be.

Making a shift to your habit is hard and it only can be acquired through maintaining consistency, Therefore, if you take a step back and take the initiative, it will be easier to retrain from all your bad habits no matter how hard it is to resist them. 

This was written by our contributing writer, Atia Sanjida.