Do you want to boost your creativity? Are you always finding you never have enough time to start that project? Here I will tell you what I did to regain some time back with a social media detox.
My mobile phone came with something called digital wellbeing that tells me how much time I was spending on certain apps but also gives me the option to limit time. This feature is easy to turn off if I am just about to finish reading that article or I just needed to look up that exhibition, etc. I was astonished at how much time I was spending on my phone, when I added up those hours per week; I wondered what else I could have done during that time. I deleted Facebook a couple of months ago and made someone else admin for my art page (you can do this if you need to deactivate your profile without losing your fan page). I watched The Social Dilemma documentary on Netflix after seeing it mentioned on Instagram (yes, I see the irony there), I highly recommend watching it. I felt I had done the right thing by deactivating my Facebook account and I haven’t missed it. I reassessed how I wanted to spend my time online and how accessible I wanted my photos and other information to be. I recently read a few articles on quitting social media for good but I wasn’t sure if I could do that, I have an Instagram account to share my art and view other artists. However, I could spend hours on Instagram and at the same time feeling inadequate for not selling or exhibiting, not having an amazing project or a deadline to aim for.
I had a week off work and I didn’t want to spend all of it on my phone whilst it rained so I just removed the app off my phone. At first, I still kept reaching for my phone, I spent more time on Pinterest looking at art but I put a timer on that too, I went somewhere on the train for the day, I never took my phone out thinking I needed to share where I had been or what I had bought or had for lunch. My plans for the week were to:
I know I need to do those things every day, not just this week and create new habits. I want to be able to start and finish paintings, have a body of work ready for the next exhibition. I probably will not quit Instagram for good as I do use it as a way to share my art. I aim to use it less in the future; I will not have anything to share if I do not make time for creativity.
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