Paying attention to time.

One of the positives about my life and how I spend it now, after social media, is that I am aware of my time. At least now, I am aware of the time I waste. The time I am not doing what I could be doing. I think that’s always a persistent quality with a lot of people but now, if I can first be aware of it, I can be uncomfortable enough to do something about it. 

When I was on social media all the time, whenever I would have that uncomfortable feeling, I would pull out the dopamine and squash that feeling of discontent.  And then, I would waste insane amounts of time, hours a day, staring at things I would never remember. 

But now, I am at least vividly aware of the time that is wasted. And vividly aware of what I could have done about it.

Awareness is always the first step so hopefully, with that awareness, a more clarified productivity moves forward.

The other side of this coin also is that, now that I’m not wasting hours everyday staring at a phone, I actually do have an insane amount of free time available to me. So I can spend a portion of that on myself - Reading books in bed, laying in a bathtub and dreaming, climbing mountains and getting sunburnt, etc. - And still have enough time left over to finish what I need to.