Most people would admit that the amount of screen time they spend per day is not ideal. If you have an office job, odds are you’re looking at a screen from morning to evening. With online banking, streamed content, social media, news updates and much more, there’s plenty incentive to keep a screen at eye level for many off-work hours, too.
Perhaps you’re a little tired of this and are seeking a change. If you want to start 2024 with a digital detox, that can be a great idea! It’s a little like a “dry January,” in which you limit any alcohol intake or cut it out entirely.
Given how integral modern smartphones and other devices have become to our lives, this can be harder than simply keeping away from the wine aisle during your grocery shopping. Moreover, you still have to work and use the tools that might be given to you for that task. It’s not as if you can simply ask your workplace to do their accounts in paper for that month.
So, let’s consider a few realistic methods of limiting screen time for 2024. Without further ado, let’s begin:
Inform Friends & Family About Your Detox
If you’re hoping to lay off the messenger apps and constant updates, you might inform those closest to you why you’re not being so active. You might tell them that you’re open for calls but you’re trying not to message so much, as an experiment to see if you can save time and improve focus by doing that. Otherwise, others may wonder if you’re not happy with them after withdrawing a little, and it’s important not to give the wrong impression.
Turn Off Non-Essential Notifications
You don’t need to remove apps or delete accounts to keep your digital life more organized, you can just adjust the notifications you receive. Some apps might not be necessary for you, so you can switch off their notifiers entirely. You might even do that with news apps if you need a little break. From there, you might add some apps to your “scheduled summary,” which means you can aggregate all notifications to come at a certain time. Once a day looking at your phone outside of contacting people is certainly better than the thirty times it might have been otherwise, and that can count as a detox too.
Use Apps to Monitor and Limit Screen Time
Some apps allow you to limit the kind of content you view or the time in which you can view it. For example, perhaps you’ll allow yourself ten minutes on a news app per day, which is all you really need to get the gist of what’s going on. Think of this like Google Safe Search but for particular content and the time you’re allowed to spend on it. From there, you can limit your screen time and make it more of a disciplined practice. Perhaps you’ll outright restrict yourself for a month from certain programs, like all the unnecessary word games you have on your phone. Wordle is fun, but you don’t need it during your detox.
Fill That Free Time Well
Of course, when you stop checking your phone all of the time, you have free time to enjoy yourself or to spend on your general tasks in the day. Instead of necessarily connecting to a podcast when you’re doing household chores, you might just strike up a conversation with a family member. Instead of reading the news that morning on your phone, you might even pick up a local paper or magazine and read an article.
Nice little offline alternatives can give you the peace of mind to engage in your daily life, but with space to breathe this time around. That in itself can be a highly helpful and comforting means of spending your time, because all of a sudden the breakneck speed of online life is gone from you. You then begin to notice your environment more readily, and perhaps even engage in activities you don’t really do anymore, like going on hikes at the weekend with no earbuds at all, or cooking using a cookbook instead of an AI app or online recipe. It’s not about disconnecting from your phone completely, but only integrating it in your life when you really need to. Perhaps, at the end of your detox, you’ll keep up those habits for good.
With this advice, we hope you can enjoy 2024 even with a wonderful digital detox to nudge you in the right direction. With a little care and attention, you’re sure to prosper.
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