New Year, New Me.
I was full of excitement when we crossed over to this year. I was not just happy because we entered a new year but I was engulfed with hope and fresh energy for the journey ahead.
Each new year comes with fresh opportunities for all of us. People tend to use it as a privilege to reflect on their lives, make changes, and hope for a better version of themselves.
Last year was a year full of lessons. I don't want to tag it as a bad year because everything that befell me turned out to teach me so much about life.
From my experiences from the previous years, I was able to discover certain areas of my life that are leaking and I want to work on those areas this year.
One of the habits I had the previous years that has really pinned me in one place was spending so much time on social media. Every day, I spend more time on social media doing unproductive things than I do building myself.
As soon as I wake from sleep and finish my morning devotion, the first place I visit often is Facebook. I became so attached to it that even when I am working, I can pause for a moment and go to Facebook, and chat a little before I progress.
That habit has snatched time out of my hands leaving me with the deceit that I don't have time. It was a pleasure I enjoyed to my detriment. Sometimes, I'll say let me just check my news feed and before you know it, an hour or two is gone and I am still scrolling.
There were days, when I wasted my entire day on social media doing nothing. I procrastinated and postponed valuable tasks till I could no longer attend to them.
So this year, one of the things I am looking forward to stopping is spending so much time on social media. Mind you, this is not my first time taking this decision but I am hoping that this time around it will work out.
I have already deactivated a lot of features on my Facebook and changed Whatsapp contact and for the past two weeks, I have not been so active on Facebook. I have drastically reduced how much I chat there but today, I watched reels there, LOL.
I can say I am improving, and so far, honestly, if I say I don't have time for myself, I lied. I just hope I will have the courage to continue in that manner.
Now that I have created an empty space, I'll need to fill it up with something beneficial, or else I'll either return to my vomit or start something even worse.
Therefore, I am planning to resurrect my reading culture this year. I already have a few books to begin with. I miss those days I used to read, I know how much it has helped me. I wonder how I lost the culture. Well, I hope that I will make a change in that area of my life this year.
I also want to start going for morning walkouts. It's been like 3 years, if not more since I went for a walkout. I want to bring back that habit to life, I have not been serious with exercise last year and it is not healthy.
I know that all these things will not be easy but I'll play my role and see what comes out of it.
I definitely understand how activities on social media could cost a human valuable time but then in this time and age it has become a lot difficult to stay away from it. What I would advise is, instead of trying to reduce your general usage of all your social media accounts why not prioritise it based value and importance. Which means you can choose to abstain from any of the social media platform that doesn't seem to be adding value to you and embrace the ones that are adding value to you. We now live in an era when we need social media for almost everything.
That's is very nice idea sir. Actually it's even Facebook that is my major problem and I have already started working on reducing my activities on it.
You are right about social media being the deal of the day, we can't do without it in this era.
Thanks for the amazing comment sir
You are welcome boss.
Thank you 😊