Cellphone addiction is one of the most annoying problems someone can have. It saps your time, energy, and possibly even your money. It’s insidious, and when it creeps up on you, you’re helpless. Freeing myself from my cellphone addiction has been one of the best things I’ve ever done. It’s helped me get ahead in life and find a way of focusing on my goals and enjoying the moment. I’m better, faster, and smarter now that I’m not addicted to my phone. Most importantly, I’m happier. Knowing all of this, I felt inspired to write a self-help article on the subject. Here’s how you can go about quitting your phone.
Make more money
This might seem counterproductive, or perhaps a bit cliche, but making more money is the key to avoiding phone addiction. If you make more money, you spend more time helping society, hopefully. The more time you spend helping society, the more time you spend away from your phone, and the more money you make. The more money you have, the more you’re able to spend on entertainment. This means that you’ll be able to find things to do outside of your phone more easily. Take it from someone who’s been poor. You want to make more money if you want to avoid being addicted to your phone.
Realize that your phone is limiting your life
Having your phone on you is making your life a lot more boring. You’re likely wasting countless hours scrolling, checking the news, or even talking. Imagine if you got that time back. Over the years, you get back at least a decade by breaking your phone addiction. So, if you want to get your fair shake, you’re going to want to break your phone addiction. It’s one of the keys to enjoying life. Realizing how much your phone takes away is one of the first steps to success.
Realize that the content you watch is depraved, if it is
A lot of people use their phones to consume negative content. This can be TikTok brain rot, bigoted politics, gambling, pornography… you name it. All of this stuff can be accessed with a smartphone and all of it is harmful. The sooner you realize that the stuff you consume online is harmful, the sooner you will revile it. This means that even if you slip into old habits, you’ll know what you’re doing is wrong. This will do a lot with regards to changing your behavior. It will have a strong subconscious effect.
Socialize more, leave your phone at home
Make a commitment to going outside a few times per week and leave your phone at home. Make sure to talk to other people and do it for an extended period of time. If you’re too afraid to talk to people, try training yourself by asking a certain amount of people for directions, or giving out a certain number of compliments. Once you realize that most people don’t bite, you can get to conversing with others. Spend a lot of time talking to other people, and make sure to do it often. Once you get the hang of things, you’ll find that it gets easier and easier to entertain yourself without your phone. Before you know it, you won’t even need to socialize in order to find phone free fun.
Realize how normal real people are
This will help you realize just how crazy the internet is. The people you meet will probably be super normal, and very nice. You’ll feel as though the internet was a crazy place, and that things were portrayed as overly difficult for no reason. This is unless you give off bad vibes. Real life has hiccups and challenges, socially. But I promise the internet overexaggerates them. Once you get used to dealing with challenges in real life, nothing will stress you out. You’ll be able to move on from awkward, painful, or embarrassing situations without too much trouble.
Once you get used to not having a phone, start bringing it out again
You want to have a phone to keep in touch with people. You also want to have it for safety. So once you get used to your phone, start bringing it out again. You’ll find that you feel the urge to check it a lot less. This will make you more present and more interesting when you’re going outside. You also won’t have much by way of social media, so you’ll have less to look at. You’ll find that people don’t really notice. They’re too busy looking at their phone and engaging with you.
This is my basic method for breaking phone addiction. It’s a pretty destructive aspect of life that can be difficult to overcome, but the problem can be solved if you make it simple and actually follow through on the execution of the solution. Speaking from experience, breaking a phone addiction can be a beautiful thing. You feel smarter, more alive, and freer once you’re able to give up your phone. Take a leap of faith and follow through with this process.
Thanks for paying attention.
