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27. WHY I TOOK 1 MONTH OFF OF SOCIAL MEDIA!!
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I have learned many lessons and codes from this experience of disconnecting from social media and the internet and wanted to share it with you! Hope you enjoy this episode.
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Returning After Social Media Hiatus
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Welcome back to another episode. Well, I should probably be saying, welcome back, Adam. Where have I been over the last month?
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I'm sure maybe there's like one of you that probably thought where I was. I know I'm not that important in your guys lives, but yeah, I am pretty active on social media. I am always posting and over the last month I haven't been. So what have I been up to? Why did I take a break? Where have I been and why? So before I jump into that,
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I just want to say, how many times do you go through a full week and say, whoa, like, where did the time even go? Like, man, we're holy. It's only two months till Christmas. What? Wow. Like, isn't that insane?
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because time goes by so fast all of the time. Now I want to bring you back a little bit. Remember when
Perception of Time: Childhood vs. Adulthood
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you were a kid and like one day would seem like forever, like one year would be like an eternity.
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Now, why is that? Well, when we're a kid, we don't think about what's next or bills or going to our work or picking up our phone. We're just living. I know when I was a kid, I was just so disconnected from everything. I was out playing tag or just being outside all the time. You had no sense of time whatsoever
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And the days really dragged on and time was very slow. But like, as I started getting older and I started doing more things, time seemed to speed up a little bit. And when I got a little bit older, you know, and like you're now fully an adult and you got a job and you got bills and, you know, you got a girlfriend, you're on your phone, you're scrolling, you're watching movies.
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Time goes by really, really fast. And I do feel like a lot of us in this world, we go through life just doing things mindlessly. We go to sleep, alarm goes off, we wake up, we go to work, we have our breaks. When we're on our breaks, we just scroll on our phone.
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Um, go back to work. Um, then we come home, maybe have supper, go to the gym, come home, watch a show, go to sleep, do it again. And it's just, you go through life doing things mindlessly. You're not really thinking about what you're doing. It's almost like you're just a zombie. Um, just doing your days on repeat.
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And I believe I really do strongly believe because you do this. This is what time just speeds up. And I know that this life is very, very short. I don't want my time to speed up. I want my time. Like I want time to slow down. So recently I was like, man, there gotta be a way, there gotta be a way to slow time down. Like,
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The months are just going by so fast. The years are going by so fast. Like, geez, I'm turning 32 this month. 32. I know that's only young, but it just seems like the years are just zipping by. Like, it literally seems like Christmas was
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the other day. And now we're like pulling up to the end of this year, going into 2024. What? The times goes by so fast. And I know that what I was doing, I do spend a lot of time on my phone. You know, I am very present on social media. And when I'm just hanging out, even like this morning, I had a coffee, I'm scrolling, scrolling, just like wasting about a half hour. Why am I doing that?
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Why am I doing that? It's just like you're, you're doing things mindlessly.
Benefits of Disconnecting from Screens
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So let me get to the point. I took a full month, full month break away from social media, away from TV screens, um, and just really disconnected. And I stopped paying attention to the time.
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And I noticed that I was having, like because of this, I was having more human connection. And when I, you're probably like, oh, everybody has human connection. But like, do you really though, just think about this for a second. Like how often do you spend a full day, like one full day talking to people face to face and having conversations?
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Never never I don't care who you are you net it never happens You know, I go to the gym and put my music in I don't talk to anybody I wake up, you know, you go to work not really talking to anybody You might you might I know my life you might have like one hour maybe maybe two hours, I don't know, you know, most people work all day long and
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You know, when you're at work, you're just talking about work, you're not talking about life things. And then when you come home, you know, maybe come home with your wife and your kids, you're exhausted. Most people just come home, eats supper, throw in a movie, you're not talking, you're staring at a screen, you get tired, you go to sleep, and that's it. You're not really having a lot of human connections.
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When I took all that away from me, took my phones away from me, took the TVs away, you know, I wasn't checking the time. I was leaning more towards having human conversations. And I found that time just really slowed down. Like it really, really slowed down. It's almost mind blowing how much the time did slow down.
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Now, I also found that I never had any anxiety whatsoever. And I wasn't thinking about like what's next. I wasn't thinking about what I got to do tomorrow. I wasn't thinking about anything. And it's almost like I went back to being a kid again. Everything seemed more exciting.
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And I was more curious and you know, you're just talking to people when your friends, all you're doing is just talking to your friends all day. So like when I ripped all of the social media and everything away, it's just like, I went back to just talking to my friends again and like actually looking at each other in the, in dead in the eyes and having these conversations. I remember like one day would feel like two days and like a week would feel like a month. So.
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I really learned that there's a way that you can slow time down. So moving forward, obviously I have to go back to my real life, but I know that it's going to be really important if I really want to slow my life down and really be in the moment
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then I need time to disconnect from everything. Um, so moving forward, you know, I'm going to try to take a couple hours a day where there is no phones, there is no screens and I just disconnect. Um, I want to try to have more conversations. I'm the type of person that, you know, I can go a week without talking to anybody and I will be totally fine. I will be happy with it. But like,
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By having this experience, I realize that I actually do like having conversations with people and I do like opening up and talking about life.
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It's something that I was not doing in my regular life as much. You know what I mean? I think I'm even gonna have like one day a week, if I can, maybe even two, where like there's no phones all day long and I'm just disconnected from the world and just in it. Because I know if I apply these lessons that I've learned from taking a month off to my life now,
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I could slow time down and That is super important to me because this life is very short It goes by way too fast and beef. I don't want I don't I don't want to get old and look back on my life and say And where did the time go like what was I doing?
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I want to look back on my life and be like, well, I lived a really good life. I was really connected to the world and I made a lot of really good relationships and I made a lot of good friends throughout my time. I'm a very driven person, right? And I know that if I live like that and I'm very driven,
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And I'm, you know, setting goals and I'm just out here hustling day after day after day after day. Yeah, that's great. Like you need that hustle. You need that drive to succeed in life. But if I'm doing that all of the time and I never slow down, my life is just going to continue to get faster and faster and faster and faster. And then it's going to be, it's going to be gone.
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So that's not what I want. That's not what I want in my life. So like I just learned a lot about myself through this experience. And I know that I really need to work on being present in the moment and putting the phone down more and not staring at screens, you know, that is what is going to slow my life down and make it better.
Living with Curiosity and Joy
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So,
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I just wanted to share this experience with you guys because I know for a fact there is a lot of people out there that just lives their life on repeat and they're just doing the same things every single day and like that to me that's a sad life it is I understand like that's what you got to do but like
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I feel like we need to just go back to the basics and be more like a kid because kids are very curious and they live in the moment and they're very happy and they enjoy a lot of things and they laugh and they have fun and when we get older it's like that fun that excitement that
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you know, just being a kid, it gets taken away from us and everything becomes very serious. Another thing that I noticed is before I done this experience, you know, there would be, I don't know, one night where I would like really belly laugh.
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to the point where my cheeks were hurting. And I remember saying to myself, I was like, man, I haven't laughed like that in such a long time.
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That is so sad. I'm sorry, but now that I think about it, that's so sad. When I was disconnected, I just remember laughing all the time. I was just less serious and things were just more funny and I was more in the moment.
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You know, when you're just talking to people all the time, you're laughing, you're having fun, you're just being a kid. So I think that kind of really stood out for me.
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I just got to relax in my life because I am very like, go, go, go, like very like head down, just focused on the thing in front of me, um, focusing on where I want my life to be. And, um, you know, a lot has changed for me in my life, um, over the last year because, you know, I have a totally different job now and you know, I'm very focused on creating that life that I want instead of just.
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Um, just being in the moment and just appreciating things for what it is.
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taking some time away from the phone and just disconnecting and just living in the moment. That's very hard for some people to do is live in the moment. A lot of people, they overthink and they are thinking of what's next. What is in the future? What do I got to do in an hour? What do I have to do tomorrow? Checking emails. Oh, I got to talk to this person. They're never just in the moment.
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Just try just try to do that being in the moment I'm sure there's a lot of people out there that that they live their whole life in the moment and that's great but There's a lot of us that don't and there's a lot of us that overthink and we we know we worry about things
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You know, things that we can't even control. Right. And I, you know, I used to be that person, honestly, I used to be somebody that would really like create stories in my head. Like, Oh, what if this happens? What if that happens? Oh, what if I go here and this happens? And like, I was just constantly overthinking and like, you're never just.
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in the moment and just accepting things for what it is and realizing that you cannot control everything in your life. So I find as I get older, I'm always curious to how I can make my life better and how I can grow as an individual, how I could expand my mind. And I think that is really, really important as you get older is constantly being curious
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constantly learning, constantly growing, constantly trying new things and just trying to figure out like how you can live the best ultimate life that you can ever live.
Personal Growth and Introspection
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Because if you're just living life mindlessly, doing things on repeat, not growing, not changing, not learning new things, not stepping out of your comfort zone and just staying comfortable your whole life,
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your life's going to go by really fast and you're going to get old one day and you're going to look back on that life. I mean, like, man, what was I doing? Why didn't I do this? Why didn't I do that? And the life that I'm living is I want to, I want to be 90 sitting on my
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on my front step drinking a cup of tea looking back at my life and just know that I did the most. I did the most and I got myself to the best possible position that I could ever put myself in. And one of my, my mean by that is just being your best self and being in control of your mind and your emotions and your feelings and
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just being a good human being, you know? So I've just been learning a lot. I've been learning a lot about myself. And if you're not doing that, I would highly recommend taking more time to learn more about yourself and how you do that is, you know, stop depending.
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on other people for your happiness and start looking within. I also used to be somebody that used to do that. I would always depend on other people for my happiness. I needed to have that, you know, I need to have somebody to make me happy. And then like the more that I've been working on myself recently, I make myself happy now. Like your happiness comes within you, not from someone else. Um, so when I really start looking like within,
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And honestly, when I really dove into the mushrooms and expanded my mind a little bit more, I've just been constantly learning about myself. And now this other experience, taking a break from social media and just slowing my life down, I started learning even more about myself. So I believe that's super important. And I think that everybody should take some time
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for you and learn more about yourself.
Encouragement to Disconnect for Better Life Quality
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I hope that you took something from this episode and try it out. Honestly, just give it a go. Just take some time, disconnect, put your phone down, test it out. Just take one day, like one Saturday, wake up with no social media and just go live in the moment and see how long that day seems.
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Just really like go outside, go on a hike, go talk to your friends face to face, no phones and really look at how long that day is.
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Because I promise you, it's going to seem like a long, long, long day. And if we can learn to do that more, our life is going to slow down and we're going to enjoy it more. So I hope you enjoyed this episode. I hope you took something from it. And if you did, I would love to hear about it. And if you think someone else can relate to this episode, share it with them. Share it with a friend. Share it with a loved one.
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share it on your social media I would really greatly appreciate that and I hope you guys have a wonderful day and don't forget take some time for yourself disconnect and live your best ultimate life peace