Your Phone Addiction Is Silently Ruining Your Life

This is something not many people talk about.

Your phone addiction is silently affecting every single aspect of your life.

From health to finance to hygiene to relationships to career.

Forget about improving all these aspects, you won’t even think about all these because you’re always glued to your phone.

You don’t exercise because you’re busy scrolling on Instagram.

You won’t consider starting a side-hustle to make some extra cash or learning how to invest because you already have a lot of web series to finish on Netflix.

You neglect simple self-care like cleaning your ears, trimming your nails, and keeping yourself groomed.

You know more about some random YouTuber than your own sister or brother. You don’t spend time with your family.

You don’t think about how you can upskill yourself and do your job more efficiently because that’s not as important as watching food vlogs on YouTube.

Your phone addiction narrows down your mind.

It traps you in a cycle of endless distraction where all you think about is celebrity gossip, movies, sports, political garbage, TV shows, beef between two YouTubers, and worst of all pornography.

Meanwhile, the things that actually matter — your goals, your health, your income, your hygiene, your relationships fade into the background.

If you truly want to improve your life, you need to first start paying attention to these aspects instead of paying attention to useless garbage on your phone.

I’m not Mr. Perfect. Even I was addicted to my phone a couple of years back.

But I decided to get rid of it no matter what.

It wasn’t an easy journey.

I struggled a lot to break my phone addiction.

But all those struggles are totally worth it.

Because now, I have total control over myself.

I have total control over my attention and time.

And I’m using them to improve every aspect of my life.

I want to help you do the same.

So today, I’m going to share with you exactly how I broke my phone addiction so that you can also do the same.

Let’s start.

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I attacked my phone addiction piece by piece.

Let me explain what I mean by that.

So first I broke down my day into 3 parts.

1. Morning.
2. Afternoon and Evening.
3. Night.

First, I decided to overcome my night phone addiction.

So every day when I’m in bed, I use my phone until I feel sleepy.

I decided to break this habit first.

I decided to never use my phone when I’m in bed.

I kept my phone away from me (on my desk) and went to bed every day. It wasn’t easy. I wasn’t able to sleep.

I was staring at the ceiling. It was getting uncomfortable. The urge to get up and grab my phone was intense.

But I resisted.

I took it as a challenge to see how far I can go. I couldn’t sleep that night. I was awake till 3 AM.

That night was hell.

But I didn’t grab my phone.

The next day I did the same. Hell again.

I went through so many nights like this.

Because I was using my phone every night before bed, my brain was not able to accept the sudden change.

It took me some time to adapt to this new change.

After like 2 weeks, it became manageable — the urges were not that strong.

I became comfortable with my own thoughts without needing my phone.

So every night, I would stare at the ceiling and think about my day and what I can do tomorrow and other random stuff.

The best part, I fall asleep quicker than before.

Then I attacked my morning phone addiction.

Every day after waking up, I grab my phone, check all the notifications, and watch some YouTube videos before I even get out of bed.

I decided to break this habit. I decided to turn off all my notifications.

Yes, all. Even WhatsApp. I can only see who texted me if I click and open WhatsApp.

After waking up, I don’t touch my phone other than turning off my alarm.

So if I don’t want to use my phone after waking up, I need to replace that with some other activity, right? I replaced it with writing.

So every day after waking up the first thing I do is write.

Even if I don’t publish what I’m writing, I’ll just sit down and write something.

Surprisingly, when I start my day by doing something productive, my whole day tends to be productive.

Breaking the morning phone addiction was easier for me compared to the night phone addiction.

Finally afternoon and evening phone addiction.

During this time, I’ll be mostly busy with my work.

But when I feel bored, stressed, or any other negative emotion, I immediately grab my phone for relief.

I wanted to break this habit. So I did the same thing I did to break my night addiction.

I resisted.

I went through the same hell. But you know what happened as I resisted every day?

I became emotionally resilient.

Nowadays, if I feel bored, I can sit with boredom. If I feel stressed I can manage it. I don’t have to grab my phone to escape from them.

I learned to manage my own emotions.

The best way to break your afternoon and evening phone addiction is to keep yourself busy.

I keep myself busy with learning a skill and working on personal projects on weekends.

On weekdays, I will be busy with my office work.

That’s it.

This is how I broke my phone addiction.

Hope it was helpful.

See you again.

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P.S. Try staring at the ceiling tonight.