I remember when I was in the phase of when I realized that social media was bad for you.
Yet I didn't want to take the leap and actually delete.
Like I didn't have the courage to actually do the task and delete my accounts.
Much less delete the actual app off the phone.
And one of the biggest factors was like, oh, are people going to judge me?
Oh, are people going to miss me or anything like that?
But in hindsight I realized that I wasn't actually thinking these things.
It was just kind of like, I never really pinpointed why I actually didn't want to delete the actual app off my accounts.
I never actually put words to my reasons.
I basically just sat there and I was like, oh, social media is bad for you.
Yet I still scroll all the time.
Is that familiar to you?
Because that was me like a few years ago.
And what I did was I basically just took small steps.
I basically just slowly but surely started to change things.
And then basically got like myself and my friends used to these new changes.
I remember like one of the first changes I made.
This was when I was trying to like lower my screen time.
It was literally turn on grayscale mode on my phone.
So now my phone is like all black and white and it doesn't have any color.
And I would play like Clash of Clans and all that stuff with grayscale mode on.
And I remember sitting at the cafeteria one time and my friends were like all on their phones.
And I was on the face where I didn't really use my phone because I was like cutting it out because I know that's bad for me.
So I was just kind of sitting there and all my friends were on their phones.
And like Clash of Clans, the topic of Clash of Clans got brought up.
And Clash of Clans was my game of choice on my phone.
I've been playing it since like a kid.
And I deleted it like a couple like a year or actually not even a year ago, like maybe seven months ago.
And but like during this time I was sitting at the cafeteria and then Clash of Clans got brought up.
And people were like showing each other their bases and I wanted to join in.
I wanted to show them my base because it was pretty good.
It was the best out of the whole group but whatever.
And so I show everyone my base and they're like what? Like your phone is gray.
Like how am I supposed to see this?
That was just one instance of like people don't actually care.
They're just a little surprised at first.
And then over time they're just like they get used to it because I like show them my phone or like I take a picture with them or something.
And they get used to it.
And then slowly I started using my phone less and less and less.
And then I started like deleting my social media.
Like I literally deleted the accounts completely.
But that was not like one and done.
It took a long time to get to that point because I actually started by like deleting the apps.
And then I started by reducing my time and all these things.
And then over the course of like weeks and months I eventually actually made the decision to delete my accounts.
And you know what happened?
Nothing. Nobody noticed.
Absolutely nobody noticed.
Nobody brought it up to me in person.
I never brought it up.
Actually I did bring it up once in there like oh yeah whatever.
Like it's funny because I was so like convinced.
Like in hindsight I realized that the only reason why I waited so long was because I was addicted.
Like that's the only reason I was just attached to like the dopamine.
That's the only reason that's the only attachment.
Like I wasn't it wasn't because my friends were going to miss me on social media or anything else because people don't really care.
So once I like deleted that attachment deleted the entire accounts.
I can play it changed my life completely.
And then it didn't change anyone else's life because they just went on with their days.
It's going through a tic-tac. They don't notice I'm gone.
Like there's no it doesn't really matter.
So it's just a question of are you gonna be attached by yourself and just allow yourself to sit there because I was like that.
And for years I knew social media was bad for me.
And like everyone it's no mystery that social media is bad for you.
Like it's a known fact everybody knows that it's bad for you.
Even like even social media CEOs say like oh you probably shouldn't be using social media.
So it's literally just a matter of like having the courage to take the leap.
There's nothing really other than that.
Like all it was for me was literally just having the courage to go against the side of norms and delete the account.
And like as you get used to taking these like leaps of courageous acts like deleting social media.
Going to like doing all kinds of like self-improvement habits.
Graduating early. Like getting out of like not going to college.
Things for yourself that are against the norm that are actually beneficial to you.
The more you take those leaps the easier it becomes.
Like it's actually so much easier to get like to do like weird things.
Like I literally walk around I can easily walk around barefoot and shirtless now.
But if you would have asked me to do that one year ago I would have done it.
But I wouldn't have been like comfortable doing it.
And if you would have asked me like two or three years ago I would not have done it.
So it's just a matter of taking the leap.