Scaling Back
Let me tell you how I'm simplifying my life right now. Three Things:
1) I'm turning my cell phone on silent and shoving it where I can't reach it when I'm driving. I'm much more focused on the road now, and I'm actually enjoying the radio a little better. I've missed being able to get in my car and shut out the rest of the world and use it as a time to reflect on things. So now I can do that again!
2) I took all of my social media and emails off my cell phone. Now I don't feel like I have to compulsively check it every 10 minutes to see if someone emailed, Tweeted, Facebooked, etc. Now my phone is more like a phone again.
3) I deleted my Facebook account!! *cue wild party music* I had deleted my Facebook account before, but I felt pressured to get back on a year and a half ago when I released The Divided Trilogy. I was told I needed a "Page" to market and all that. But now, Facebook's made these changes and it makes you pay them in order for people to see your posts on your page. Only some measly 2% of the 166 people who had liked the page could even see posts! So the Page was pointless at this point. Not to mention all the other gazillion reasons to get off of Facebook, such as being "friends" with people you'd never in a million years keep up with unless you were on Facebook, etc. etc.
SIMPLIFICATION.
I feel better already.
What about you? Are you brave enough to cut back on your cell phone use/social media time? Have you done it, and do you like the results?
1) I'm turning my cell phone on silent and shoving it where I can't reach it when I'm driving. I'm much more focused on the road now, and I'm actually enjoying the radio a little better. I've missed being able to get in my car and shut out the rest of the world and use it as a time to reflect on things. So now I can do that again!
2) I took all of my social media and emails off my cell phone. Now I don't feel like I have to compulsively check it every 10 minutes to see if someone emailed, Tweeted, Facebooked, etc. Now my phone is more like a phone again.
3) I deleted my Facebook account!! *cue wild party music* I had deleted my Facebook account before, but I felt pressured to get back on a year and a half ago when I released The Divided Trilogy. I was told I needed a "Page" to market and all that. But now, Facebook's made these changes and it makes you pay them in order for people to see your posts on your page. Only some measly 2% of the 166 people who had liked the page could even see posts! So the Page was pointless at this point. Not to mention all the other gazillion reasons to get off of Facebook, such as being "friends" with people you'd never in a million years keep up with unless you were on Facebook, etc. etc.
SIMPLIFICATION.
I feel better already.
What about you? Are you brave enough to cut back on your cell phone use/social media time? Have you done it, and do you like the results?
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