![]() I’ve signed up for newsletters to give me more information about fewer topics.Purge and minimize the number of accounts I follow: I go through and unfollow or hide accounts that are cluttering my mental space.Limit when and how I get information and entertainment. What was I saying?īefore I tried to limit my social media use, I thought about why I use it in the first place.Ģ) For connection and community – interacting with friends, getting information in local Facebook groups, keeping up with interesting parents, writers, and activistsģ) To avoid doing something that’s hard (like writing), annoying (like cleaning), boring (like bathtime)Ĥ) Because after a long day, I’m too mentally tired to do anything else With these in mind, here’s what I’m going to focus on as I start the new year. Videos of red pandas eating grapes bring me joy! But, it’s as if I’m trying to make breakfast, and I decide to take out all the cookbooks, utensils, pots and pans, and ingredients to make pancakes, plus some berries to put on top, and some seeds to plant to grow my own berries, plus some news, and entertainment, and skincare tips. I learn so much from the point-of-view of others. I’m on it to connect with friends and my community. ![]() Scrolling social media on my phone is my Achilles heel. I want to have more energy for myself and for my family. To put it another way: In 2023, I want to have more space to think clearly and creatively. And there’s just too much stuff in here that I don’t need. It’s taking longer than necessary to do what I need to do. It’s getting harder to keep track of things. I know I need to take better care of my brain because I’m feeling more scattered. At this rate, it will take me 8 weeks to write this blog entry. Forty-seven seconds and 25 minutes to bring our attention back. It then takes 25 minutes to bring our attention back to a task after an interruption. In one of my many open tabs, I read about a new book called Attention Span and learned that we spend an average of just 47 seconds on any screen before shifting our attention. Simultaneously, I’m picking up my phone to check social media apps to laugh, love, like, and wow. Within Chrome, I tap between researching websites for work, researching, managing, and executing any number of things that need to happen for my two kids, checking email, and doing the things that need to be done to deal with the emails. ![]() I swipe back and forth between Google Chrome, Microsoft Word, Adobe Acrobat, Slack, and Spotify. I’m always working on multiple projects, so I usually have separate desktop screens for each one. I am one of those people who has more than 10 tabs open on my laptop at all times. For January 2023, I’m focusing on one goal: To Declutter My Brain.
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