It’s tough to do things in time, and it’s much harder when you have ten items in the todo list, and you need to do it by 9:00 AM!
Each day I woke up at ~10:00 AM and was upset that I didn’t do anything from my todo list. I made unreal promises for myself and felt guilty for it.
This thing sucked my energy and time to some whole in the space, and I need to do something…
P: “But wait!”
ME: “Who said it?”
P: “It’s me. Your procrastination. Open your Instagram.”
ME: “OK!”
I open Instagram and start looking, start liking pics, start watching stories. I felt guilty that someone there did some vital thing, and I’m here doing… nothing?
I lived with that thing inside me many years. It was a trap. I was in time jail. So, I started researching how to escape from Instagram, and the answer was straightforward just delete it. Moreover, that’s it. I did it. Boom. I was out!
What happened next?
“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.
“So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
I realized If you don’t earn money on your character, remove Instagram. Create your style, hire a manager and start using Instagram as a tool for making money, not as a time-jail or a toy of your procrastination.
Only a few famous people are doing Instagram on their own, and they use it as a tool to involve more audience to their character.
I have much free time, and I stop feeling “BUSY”. I started feeling some vacuum-sphere inside me, and I need to fulfill it. I didn’t know what to do with my free time, so I started reading books and learn meditation, new program language, new human language, doing yoga. Each day I want more to feel again that I’m busy but this time in real.
When you have Instagram, you can’t create something new. You put your creative energy into the building the photo with some excellent description to receive some likes. For what? For your self-image. For the feeling that you’re busy. It’s okay if you’re the photographer or some designer, but if you’re not…
When you have Instagram, you don’t know what YOU want and not what you just saw in your feed.
“I want this car and this house and travelling there and making many friends. RIGHT NOW! HMM… I CANNOT DO IT BECAUSE…”
Because you’re sitting on Instagram and thinking that you need that car or that house. It’s false.
This small step of removing Instagram from your phone gives you significant opportunities of realizing some little but essential things.
Thank you that you finish reading that article.