One of my favorite types of growth in self-improvement are the types that are one time,
but they just take a little mental difficulty to accomplish, but they basically alleviate so much
stress or pain or whatever the case may be, but essentially it's a one-time
action that you perform that actually benefits you immensely forever because this one-time action
will set you up on a path so great and it will help you actually heal or grow or whatever the
case may be depending on the scenario, but for this scenario I want to talk about is deleting
your social media account. So I hear all this talk of deleting social media, deleting your social
media apps off of your phone and if you ask me that's not enough because people just go and I
would do this too back in the day when I had social media this is what I would have done if I didn't
make the decision to delete my account in its entirety. I would delete the app and then log on
on my Safari or my browser and I would check social media that way. There's barely any benefit
involved in that. The whole point of deleting social media is to get the benefit of taking off
this massive burden from your life because social media places this massive burden on your life.
It's like running, it's like going through your whole life wearing a weighted vest. Imagine wearing
20 extra pounds on your back basically carrying a backpack with 20 pounds in it, 20 pound backpack
all your life you're just walking around with this thing and that's social media that's what
social media does to you and the the fact of the matter is that you don't get the actual benefit
of the training performance from the weighted vest that you do for social media. So the weighted vest
you actually get stronger and you're actually more capable of carrying that weight after a while
but that's not the case with social media. Social media is completely dead weight and you can't get
the benefit of growing as a person from it. It's just entirely negative. There is no positive
to having social media as a consumer for the most part and so with the exception of when you're first
starting self-improvement and you're like watching self-improvement content that's like the only
exception but even then after a while maybe a couple months you should definitely just stop
like that's what I did. I don't watch social, I don't watch self-improvement content anymore
because once you get to a certain point self-improvement content is a waste of time and it's ruining
your life just like social media does and so back in the day like actually no not even back in the
day a couple months ago right now it's January 2024 back in July or June I don't actually know it was
it was last school year so it was probably like March, April, May probably like March or May
I started deleting all of my social media accounts like I didn't just delete the apps I deleted the
account and the thing is that I did delete the app initially like I deleted Instagram initially
which worked because I never really used Instagram anyways I just had an account I never really
consumed media my main form of social media was YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat and so I have these
apps on my phone and then I delete them and I remember over the summer going into junior year
like the literally the last day of school sophomore year I decided to delete my YouTube app and my
Snapchat app and so I deleted it and then I said I'm not going to watch YouTube anymore guess what
I failed you know why because I just went on to YouTube on the browser and went and searched
YouTube that way it's because I was still addicted and they still had my information too so they were
able to make a excellent feed for me and like a perfect YouTube feed for me like recommended
videos so I was able to they were able to hook me into it and keep me on that app for a long time
and so over the course of a couple months I started deleting my accounts like initially I
deleted my Instagram which no one really noticed because I wasn't on that anyways so I deleted that
account permanently and I remember it takes 30 days for it to actually delete and so for that first
30 day period I'm just sitting there restless because I just want it to be deleted as soon as
possible and I just kind of have to wait in a stagnant state or like a suspended state I have
to wait in a suspended state for this account to delete so I can get the benefits of like having
that clear mind and so I the the account finally deletes and then in this time I'm deleting my
TikTok account my personal TikTok account and then I'm deleting my and then I okay so I deleted my
TikTok account and that was a huge thing because even though I wasn't really using it much I deleted
the account which was huge because I don't you can never know like it's impossible to explain this
until you actually experience it because I'm basically what it's like to delete your account
is like lifting this burden it's like taking off the weight jacket and the thing is that
when you delete the app and keep the account you don't actually take off the weight jacket it's kind
of like putting a coat over the weight jacket so you like don't see it anymore but it's still there
weighing you down that's basically how it is deleting your social media accounts
you when you delete the app but not the account you're basically covering the wound and you're
basically covering your jacket your weight vest with a jacket and so when you delete the account
you're completely taking off the weight vest so you're actually you're actually alleviating the
pain and the stress from social media and so I deleted the TikTok and then eventually I deleted
the Snapchat account which that was the main thing and that took some like I don't really remember my
emotional feeling around the time but I'm sure that it took some serious willpower and determination
to actually delete that thing because for the one for the first for the most part or first first of all
I was that was my main form of communicating with other people and I would go on the stories and I'll
just see how everyone's life was and it wasn't until after I deleted the account that I realized how
damaging that is to myself opening pictures sent from other people that they barely even know me
just opening a picture of them it's just so damaging and then also seeing their Snapchat stories
that actually destroys your mental health and I didn't even realize it at the time because it's
one of those silent but deadly kind of things like you don't really notice it but after the fact
like now in hindsight reflecting on that that actually messes you up checking those stories
because the worst part is all those people that I checked their stories I barely even know them
I'm not even friends with them in real life and I'm still destroying my mental health over that
so it's a terrible thing so the lesson that I learned that I want to share with you is that one
of the best things that you can do is delete your social media accounts and I have proof of this
because I'm not the only one that like I actually told someone this advice my friend he is on
self-improvement as well and over the summer I was getting so much good benefits from deleting
social media and I wanted to share the knowledge and share the wealth with my friend because that's
what we would do we would share everything we're learning with each other and we still do that to
this day which by the way expect an episode coming up about getting a friend on self-improvement
or finding a friend on self-improvement because that's another topic I want to talk about but
pretty much I told my friend to delete his accounts and he was a little
he didn't want to do it at first he was a little resistant but with little debate like basically
meaning that after I just said just do it he did it anyways he did it and he definitely he did not
regret it and I could tell because I'm not sure if he actually told me how valuable it was but he
said that well actually yeah he did say like pretty much the week after he was like this is so valuable
thank you so much like the only reason why I was keeping social media was because and then he had
his own reason everyone has their own reason but I like I said I'm still this happened like maybe
four months ago five months ago and so I actually just talked to him again we had a mastermind which
expect an episode coming up about masterminds also so we had a mastermind the other day and
he said that that was the best advice you've ever given me deleting the social media accounts
he told me that was the best advice that you have ever given me