02/06/2020
Digital Detoxing - Disconnect to Reconnect
Breaking down steps on how to start and maintain your digital detox.
* Make a list of all the gadgets you use. Rate their importance wise. Start by cutting off of the least important of all.
* Make a list of all the meaningful things you would like to do.
* Cut downtime you spend on social media and pursue your hobbies and interests.
* This doesn’t mean completely freezing your presence in the network. Fix time intervals throughout the day where you could reply or check emails and messages. And stay true to the time you set.
* The main purpose is to reduce the amount of time you spend online. So if this week you decide to spend 4 hours a day, the next week raise the bars and lower the limits until you no longer feel the need to stay online for more than 2 hours a day.
* Avoid using phones or laptops when you are eating.
* Do not leave your phone next to your pillow. Besides the harmful radiation, you will only end up tempting yourself to get back into virtuosity.
* Start conversing in person. It’ll improve your interpersonal skills, helps you improve your language, and establish an emotional connection.
The secret is to take it slow so that any difference is hardly noticeable. You will be surprised to find that you have lesser problems, you are a little less stressed, a little more relaxed and a lot happier. Let’s take an initiative to appreciate the little things of life that actually matter and not things like someone’s coffee or dust bunnies.
Kapil Panchal
