How to Stop Wasting Time on Your Phone

Does it feel like you're wasting your life on distractions, instead of creating the life of your dreams? Here’s how I fixed it in my life, and it changed everything!

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Hey, my name’s Mike, a creator based out of New York City. I make videos that explore how to become the best version of yourself, and share the lessons that I’ve learned from over 5 years of trying to improve myself.

[OuchMyNardz]

In an effort to limit the amount of times I look at my phone, I turned off all notifications for social media and email. It worked great for a while, but I've adapted to doing micro-checks for any missed messages. This has caused me to turn off Likes, Commenting, etc on social media to lessen the notifications in general. It's been entertaining to implement.

[Kirmo]

Now that I'm thinking about it, the title of the video reminds me of a book I read about tech addiction: Smart Phone Dumb Phone by Allen Carr. I strongly recomend it to people who want to gain control

[mueslikruemel]

I was on a rehabilitation retreat for depression and specifically media addiction and the jist of how to deal with media addiction was basically like this: go cold turkey with the worst offenders. But because electronic devices are a necessity nowadays it's not that easy to just completely throw them all out of your life.
The way they told us to handle media addiction was to put each electronic device and each media form into categories of red, yellow and green.
Red are the worst of the worst; the ones you spend hours on and that impact your life the most. Those are the ones you have to go cold turkey, most likey forever because most people will not be able to have a healthy relationship with them. In my case it is videogames.
Yellow are the ones you have to heavily monitor and that are at risk of becoming the next main form of addiction once you cut out the red ones. For me for instance Youtube videos.
Green are the ones you are totally fine with and are not addictiv at all. That is instant messengers for me.
It's a rather fluid construct (except for the red ones becoming yellow or even green ones) so as with everything addiction you have to keep an eye on your habbits and behaviours.

[richardantao]

I see a lot of parallels with this and Cal Newport's 'Deep Work'. He talks a lot about the benefits of getting comfortable with being bored. Awesome work man!

[jengasca]

Really felt this video was made for me. Thank you!

[NBTJacklyn]

MIKE
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THE TALENT IS IMMENSE
Love ur energy forever and always

[conruathichconchuot]

i love this video so much ❤Great content

[GeekyCondor]

I have got good use out of my phone, it’s time to move on.

[polishtimmy]

I used a similar thing but instead of blocking these apps entirely, I deleted them from my Nova launcher homescreen, and after some customization, these apps are so hard to access, that every time I want to open them, I simply give up.

[michael]

Just found your channel. Great content, subbed!!!👍👊👊👊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[VanessaCarreiroAmaral]

I did a few phone detoxes myself but only when I'm with other people cuz I feel lost without google maps. 😂

[frealixofficial]

the main thing that prevents me from "using" a friend to lock certain services and websites is that: I might as a result change my behavior towards them as a result of some part of me craving, let's say YouTube.
Trying to manipulate them into giving me the password.
And this impacting my relation to this friend.

[pmreynolds]

28 days to break a habit isn’t enough to break a old habit a new and more positive one needs to take its place

[aytnrhimova]

How do we approach that relationship with our technology and be more intentional about it instead of having it be in control of the behaviours and actions and things that we do instead we can- What did you mean by saying that?

[humorbased]

What is the app to monitor internet time please?

[adsheff]

NB Thomas Edison was not the inventor of the lightbulb. It was Joseph Swan.

[pawejerzyna]

where did you get this fancy 1:59 clock?

[johnmacleod]

Dopamine is a drug which is all too real and at last I can see all the social media apps and their algorithms are what turn using our phones all day or for dsys is where addictions to devices are taking our lives to angles we never envisioned would ever be your video is an eye opener of which I ready felt it became the wake-up call I needed to hear and watch at this time in my life

[terequa]

i don't know how to make you understand me that there is no chance to get out of your home in my city just for some reasons women can't get out of home so what are you guys seeing how to make my life worthy till i get recruitment because i graduate this year so i have to stay at home (in our culture) till i get married or till i get my recruitment so i can get out and be free.... i know most people can't understand that just because their lifestyle is different so could you give me plz some tips can helps me finding my life with some ideas which you got it from your traveling or from your exploring to this prisoner person😂🤦🏻‍♀️💙😂+thank you i found your accent easy to understand🙏🏻

[Iamam]

when you put your phone in that box all I could think about was that you might have to call the cops or an ambulance and you won't be able to and I freaked out...I could never use one of those boxes, buuuut I can just put my phone down and not use it so I don't think I need it. Actually hearing you say that social media make you feel good was kind of weird because it makes me only feel shitty like I cannot look at Instagram anymore or any content really where I see perfect bodies being presented like fitness stuff or models etc. I literally start crying :)), it is a recent development but it keeps me away from social media...