Want to do the digital detox but do not know how to start it?
This article will give you some findings in terms of how to manage the use of your phone.
Many methods for a digital detox
Basically, there are many methods for a digital detox.
I, myself a minimalist and a person who does digital detox pretty often, have tried many methods and approaches to acquire the habit of digital detox.
In the first stage, I was struggling to enjoy the time without digital devices, but gradually noticing how to enjoy the time without any electronic devices, I realized the difficulty level of each action for the digital detox.
So in this article, I would like to go into one of the easiest approaches to do the digital detox: starting from uninstalling the app from your phone one by one.
This article will help you if you're having trouble with starting a digital detox habit and not knowing what to do for the first step.
Also, if you do not want to delete the app and want to do something easier without deleting the apps, Digital detox activities: 5 examples and how to start them will be something valuable to read out.
Making your phone as least fun as possible
Before uninstalling the apps from your phone, you want to understand why you do it.
You may have realized that most online services can be used from a computer and a smartphone.
Facebook for example, you can text someone from a laptop browser and your Facebook messenger app on your phone.
At this point, you want to think about why you have to have the Facebook messenger app on your phone.
If you use the Facebook messenger app for your private purpose, you can replace the app with the pre-installed messaging app on your phone.
I want to highlight here that the more apps you have on your phone, the more distractions you can get from your phone.
If we see this fact from another point of view, it also means that the less,fewer apps you have on your phone, the fewer distractions you can get from your phone.
So if you want to decrease the time you spend on your smartphone, the very simple solution is to reduce the number of apps on your phone.
Going back to the example of Facebook messenger, you don't have to have the app if you can use it with your laptop.
You can also tell your friends that you're going to uninstall the app from your phone so that your friends will be aware that your response will be a bit slow.
Here, I'm not saying that go ahead and uninstall the app that you use for your profession, but I'm saying that go uninstall the app that you don't have to have on your phone.
To conclude this paragraph, I would like to state that making your phone as least fun as possible is the very first step of the digital detox.
Before you uninstall the app, please make sure that you follow the below steps for a safe diesel detox.
- Decide the app you want to delete today.
- Check whether you can use the same service from a laptop browser.
- Uninstall the app.
- Do this every Saturday or Sunday and make this a habit
In a couple of months, your phone will be the very least fun device.
Digital Detox is so important for us
As written in the article Minimalist lifestyle tips "digital detox for well-being is so important to 21st-century people", a digital detox is so important for people like us living in a century with a lot of electronic devices.
I have been sharing in this blog that we have to realize the importance of digital detox, especially in this century.
However, the problem is nobody is telling you how to do it.
As a professional independent blogger, I thought I could be the one to show you each step of a digital detox based on my own experience.
I had been suffering from the overuse of digital devices for decades.
Because I was too obsessed with my phones and laptops, I didn't even have the time to be aware that I am obsessed with digital devices and how it is dangerous to be like that.
I hope this article will help you to enter the new world.