Digital Media Control with Career and Study

See, here you have to understand one thing by focusing very much, that thing is that after completing 4 hours, you start doing your addiction. Then sometimes you are not able to control your addiction. And while doing that addiction you spend 10-12 hours consuming that addiction. We mostly feel this situation when we consume our social media, then it is a lot.

And whatever sensory addictions that are naturally there at the body level, they come under your control after some time. But here the social media addiction, you cannot control that addiction very easily, once the time comes to scroll reels or short videos. Because the attention span of short videos is very low, that the dopamine rush in us is so fast that we are not even able to think anything. And we say that now after 5 minutes we will stop watching these short videos.

A Person Facing so Many Problems Along with Social Media Addictions: –

This thing keeps on happening only in one way and we do not know when 5 minutes become 5 hours. Now be it any social media platform, most of the people are addicted to other physical things. See, keep one thing in mind that when a person is addicted to something, then he does not think about anything else apart from the thing he is doing. And when you are addicted to something, then the person does not think about anything else apart from that thing.

Firstly, he is already trapped in the problem of his life. Well, when he gets trapped in any of his old addictions, he is not able to take the right decision. You are thinking that if you delete all the accounts from social media, you will recover from that addiction very easily. But it is not so, here you cannot fix every kind of addiction at the same place.

Now many times when you are scrolling the reels on your social media. Then no matter how disciplined a person you are, this social media disturbs you for some hours or the other. So, that is why you have to mindfully scroll only those things on social media, about whose content you already know. So, that kind of content is published maximum on your account, so you consume mindfully but you consume.

Addiction Can’t be Able to do Any Work Some Peoples Even for 4-5 hours: –

And addiction is addiction, if you come in even a slight touch of it, then understand that some of your hours are going to be wasted. And who knows the whole half day may get wasted. So, when you complete your daily target, only then you should come towards your addiction to consume it. And sometimes you feel like this, if people like you worked for 3-4 hours, then it’s your right after doing your work, you should enjoy your life.

Now you also realize that in life, you are doing only 4 hours of work without the help of any addiction. And the remaining 4 hours of work, you are doing while overcoming your addiction. So, you must have figured out many times that when you are addicted to drugs, you are not able to do things in a better way. Because your mind is focusing on 2 places simultaneously.

Now the addiction is such that, when you are working, that addiction calms your mind further. And you are able to do the work you are doing by concentrating more. Here one thing we know is that, by staying in deep silence peaceful environment, when we work, this peaceful meditative state motivates us even more to complete our work by concentrating more.

There is No Point of Return: –

This is also something to think about, where you know that there is no point of return. Just like in India, if someone gets married once, then no matter how much he tries, his marriage is not going to break. Neither is he going to get a divorce. And once you have children, then you cannot even do this, that you leave them, you will have to raise them.

Now it is like this when you know that, once you start watching shorts on YouTube, you will not realize that while watching one short, you end up consuming so many shorts. And the same is the situation with Instagram reels too. When you know that, then why do you go to watch them again. So, there is a lot of reason for this, greed and hunger for entertainment and here on social media, be it shorts or reels, there is distraction work in both.

Now you have to see what kind of content you have to watch. So, that you do not feel distracted to a great extent. There will be some such accounts on social media, whose content you can watch and still do your work. And when you are a student, you have to do mostly the work of studying.

So, then you have to give priority to watching such content, while consuming which you can also do your study work. Like: – you have subscribed-followed such people on YouTube-Instagram. While consuming whose content you can also do your study work. So, what is the problem in consuming content from such accounts, because you can control such accounts along with studying.

Use Technology to Overcome Social Media Addiction: –

Now like sometimes there are some accounts with rhythmic music, which you can control. And here you try, you do not have to consume the content on your Instagram. Because as compared to YouTube, you can set the YouTube content on your laptop and some tablets by installing an extension. But you cannot manage your YouTube and Instagram content on your mobile phone.

Because the “there is no point in return” loop starts there. And when you start looking once, you get so many types of content on your Instagram and YouTube that you cannot control it. Therefore, if you want to view some content, you should try viewing it on your laptop or tablet by installing an extension. And you should also follow digital minimalism just as you follow minimalism in your non-digital things.

So, that is why if you want to remove any kind of distraction, you will have to follow minimalism. And sometimes students consume social media so that they can do their content creation work. But instead of content creation, they start scrolling their Instagram-YouTube content. And they forget why they opened the social media app.

So, here it becomes very difficult to manage the addiction of video content creation on social media and reels-shorts on social media. It is the same thing that we do not drink alcohol, but we definitely sell alcohol. And the person who is very troubled by alcohol, how can he do the business of selling alcohol. Then he gets trapped in this same trap.

How Students Manage Video Creation with Social Media Addiction: –

So, if you want to sell alcohol here, then sell such alcohol in which the alcohol content is zero or 1-2%. Similarly, content creation also has to be done like this. That ok, you do not consume useless content. But if you start watching good content here, then that too is wasting your time in a way.

So, then if such students have to do video creation work on social media without getting addicted to the content of reels-shorts. Then you have to do something like this, that you also upload the content and also to see the insights of that video. You do not have to download that app. Now if we look at it this way, then you can completely control your YouTube by installing the extension very easily.

But you cannot control the content of your Instagram. So, if you start the work of video creation again. Then you cannot expect at all that if you upload content on Instagram, then you will not be able to save yourself from Instagram’s reels. Whereas you will be able to save yourself from YouTube’s shorts very easily.

Because when you do the work of uploading video content. You yourself have a desire that you watch your video again and again to review and see its insights. So, due to this your chances increase that you do not fall prey to shorts-reels addiction. That’s why if you still want to create content, then you should avoid platforms like Instagram, TikTok.

Manage Your Social Media Addiction If you are an Established Social Media Creator: –

If you are already established here and there is a good engagement of people on your profile. And you have made a name for yourself among content creators like you. Then you should decide according to that, how to manage your reels addiction. Then you want, you can keep a social media manager to manage your Instagram, who will manage your video content on every platform.

So, you will not be able to watch reels. And you should keep yourself busy somewhere else and do not get time to scroll the reels. In the same way you have to manage your YouTube and Instagram as well. So, let’s accept that you have learned to manage your social media content using extensions. And now with the help of technology you have reduced your social media reels and short addiction by 80-90%.

Manage Your Social Media 10-20% Distraction: –

Now it is time to manage these 10-20% content which gets coupled with your work and refreshes you during your study time. Just like you have followed-subscribed some rhythmic lip-sync content creators. Like many people are content creators based on rhythmic music. So, here, with the help of these rhythmic songs content creators, you can work for some time, and you also remain entertained.

So, in this way while listening to rhythmic songs you are doing some reading work or memorizing some work of your studies. Then you can do your work properly while listening to rhythmic content. But when you do other types of work like writing while listening to this rhythmic connection. Then neither you are able to enjoy your rhythmic music properly nor you are able to do your writing work properly.

So, in the beginning when you do your 8 hours of work, then in the first 4 hours you do your writing work fine without any addiction. But when you think about the remaining 4 hours are after lunch in the 2nd phase, we go to do our writing work while listening to these songs. Then we are not able to concentrate at all on the work we are doing. So, in such situations when you are not able to work properly in your 2nd phase’s 4 hours.

Breaking the Study-Music Myth: –

Here you must figure out one thing that you are not able to do your writing work properly by concentrating, just like you complete the 4 hours of starting phase-1. Then why do you listen to such rhythmic music in your second phase, while doing your writing work. One reason is that you have heard from people, that those people who listen to songs can study properly in their own time. So, this is correct, but you can do this work only when you are doing some memorizing work or reading work.

Then at that time you play the content of your rhythmic song in your ears. And during this time, you can also do some editing work in your existing writing work. While watching and listening to this rhythmic content, then you can say that you can work even while listening to songs. But when you are remembering something, then do not consume any kind of non-rhythmic content.

It can also divide your focus, because there is no rhythm in non-rhythmic content, so it can also disturb you. So, you talk about, let’s start with the 4 hours of phase-1, you are comfortably ready to do your writing work. But what about the 4 hours of phase-2 which happens after the 1-hour lunch break, then how will you manage that now. Because till now whenever you completed the 4 hours of phase-1, then the 1 hour break you used to get.

Don’t use social media in Your Lunch Break: –

In that break hours you started listening to your rhythmic content. Then by mistake one day you downloaded Instagram in your lunch break. And when you played a reel, then again, the “there is no point of return” loop starts. Then this loop will not break without knowing it.

Because this loop will eat up your lunch break time and also keep you busy for another 4 hours. And it will also delay the writing work you are doing during this time. Now here it will happen that, when you are doing writing work without reels-shorts, then you can easily cover 3-4 topics. But now when you have 4 hours of time, then with great difficulty you can complete your writing work on 1 topic.

So, again in such situations it becomes important that you also keep away from your personal rhythmic content. Which you have subscribed to on your YouTube channel. Because this content can also remind you of the contents on your Instagram. Which can completely disturb you during your writing work during break hours.

How to Productive After the Lunch Break in Your Job or Study Work: –

So, here it becomes important that when your 4 hours slot of Phase-1 is over, then what to do. Because now you have decided to completely stop the content which you used to enjoy for entertainment in your 4 hours lunch break. So, then how will you keep yourself fresh during this 1-hour lunch break. And you have to do 8 hours of work directly too; how will you handle that.

Because now the break that you take after every 4 hours, you have to keep that break not more than 1 hour long. Means you have to make yourself feel that you have no work left after these 4 hours of work. So, now here you can do something like this, after doing which you will be mentally fresh in your lunch break, and you will also prepare yourself for the next 4 hours of work.

Do Physical Exercise and Take Nap in Lunch Break Instead of Using Social Media: –

So, the best thing here is that you take the nap in a good manner, after getting well physically fresh and after eating food, you should try. Wherever you are, whether you can take a bath nearby or not and whether you can take the nap properly there or not. This depends on your work, if you are getting everything, wherever you are studying or working, then you have to try this thing as well. And then you have to complete your writing work also.

So, if you are unable to do anything else during the lunch break here, then you should try to take a good nap for 1 hour. You should not fall asleep, even then you should set the vibration mode alarm for 1 hour, close your eyes slowly and sit at your desk. If you have the facility to sleep, then you should also go there. Just keep in mind that you must not open your eyes during this 1-hour lunch break nap session, you must open your eyes when your alarm rings.

Or when you are at a location where mobile phones are not allowed, then you can use vibration alarm there. And you should try that when you sit during lunch break, you sit at a place where there are no rules-regulations. So, in this way you can completely utilize the 4 hours of phase-2 also to complete your writing work.

Conclusion: –

So, now the question arises whether you should use your social media after 8 hours of work or not. The answer to this is that after your 8 hours, when your writing work is complete, then you should identify more new works. Where you can keep yourself busier. And try to put some of your content on your social media.

At least try to put the same work which you have done in 8 hours of writing, by concerting it in video form on your social media. But keep in mind, you do not have to upload content directly on social media apps. You have to upload video content from their studio apps like for YouTube, there is a YouTube-Studio and for Instagram, there is a Business-suite etc. You do not have to upload directly from social media apps because these things can also attract you to watch your shorts-reels.