- You spend much too much time idly looking around social media on your smartphone.
- You’re a YouTube/Netflix/TV binge-watcher.
- You spend the entire weekend partying.
- After waking up, you spend an hour on your phone, feeling lethargic.
- You spend your days (Instagram/Snapchat) looking at other people’s lives.
- You are constantly reading about celebrity rumors, gossip, and the latest fads/hype.
- You indulge in a lot of chatter.
- You’re just going through the motions of life, and you can’t wait for the day to end because you have nothing planned for the next day.
- On the inside, you feel terrible for not investing your time more wisely.
Instead than focusing on the negative aspects of your life, consider the following suggestions to improve your situation:
- Set a timer on your phone to remind you when you’ve spent too much time on social media (unless you’re using it for work or as part of your personal branding).
- Reading should take the place of consuming meaningless web stuff. Read a lot, and read a lot more.
- Instead of overindulging in partying, spend your weekends focusing on your side hustles, learning a new skill, or participating in sports (the occasional partying is fine)
- Get up as soon as you wake up and create an inspiring morning routine that is unique to you.
- Tip 1’s guidance applies here.
- Stop reading sensationalized news and instead educate yourself on more important topics such as politics, money, and economics.
- Form social circles where you are inspired to be better by transforming your talks with people into mutually empowering ones.
- Make plans, schedule your day, and plan your week; whatever your schedule gets done.
- This issue is solved with tip #8.
- And there’s no more remorse:)
