Practice #28 - Delete Your Social Media ACCOUNTS

1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,320 One of my favorite types of growth in self-improvement are the types that are one time, 2 00:00:07,120 --> 00:00:14,800 but they just take a little mental difficulty to accomplish, but they basically alleviate so much 3 00:00:15,760 --> 00:00:21,760 stress or pain or whatever the case may be, but essentially it's a one-time 4 00:00:21,760 --> 00:00:31,840 action that you perform that actually benefits you immensely forever because this one-time action 5 00:00:31,840 --> 00:00:39,520 will set you up on a path so great and it will help you actually heal or grow or whatever the 6 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:45,440 case may be depending on the scenario, but for this scenario I want to talk about is deleting 7 00:00:45,440 --> 00:00:53,520 your social media account. So I hear all this talk of deleting social media, deleting your social 8 00:00:53,520 --> 00:01:01,920 media apps off of your phone and if you ask me that's not enough because people just go and I 9 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:07,760 would do this too back in the day when I had social media this is what I would have done if I didn't 10 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:15,200 make the decision to delete my account in its entirety. I would delete the app and then log on 11 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:22,400 on my Safari or my browser and I would check social media that way. There's barely any benefit 12 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:30,960 involved in that. The whole point of deleting social media is to get the benefit of taking off 13 00:01:30,960 --> 00:01:36,640 this massive burden from your life because social media places this massive burden on your life. 14 00:01:36,640 --> 00:01:45,040 It's like running, it's like going through your whole life wearing a weighted vest. Imagine wearing 15 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:53,520 20 extra pounds on your back basically carrying a backpack with 20 pounds in it, 20 pound backpack 16 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:58,480 all your life you're just walking around with this thing and that's social media that's what 17 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:05,360 social media does to you and the the fact of the matter is that you don't get the actual benefit 18 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:13,360 of the training performance from the weighted vest that you do for social media. So the weighted vest 19 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:18,640 you actually get stronger and you're actually more capable of carrying that weight after a while 20 00:02:19,920 --> 00:02:25,360 but that's not the case with social media. Social media is completely dead weight and you can't get 21 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:32,400 the benefit of growing as a person from it. It's just entirely negative. There is no positive 22 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:40,480 to having social media as a consumer for the most part and so with the exception of when you're first 23 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:45,600 starting self-improvement and you're like watching self-improvement content that's like the only 24 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:51,840 exception but even then after a while maybe a couple months you should definitely just stop 25 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:56,880 like that's what I did. I don't watch social, I don't watch self-improvement content anymore 26 00:02:56,880 --> 00:03:03,360 because once you get to a certain point self-improvement content is a waste of time and it's ruining 27 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:12,240 your life just like social media does and so back in the day like actually no not even back in the 28 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:22,400 day a couple months ago right now it's January 2024 back in July or June I don't actually know it was 29 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:28,720 it was last school year so it was probably like March, April, May probably like March or May 30 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:36,720 I started deleting all of my social media accounts like I didn't just delete the apps I deleted the 31 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:43,840 account and the thing is that I did delete the app initially like I deleted Instagram initially 32 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:49,760 which worked because I never really used Instagram anyways I just had an account I never really 33 00:03:49,760 --> 00:03:59,520 consumed media my main form of social media was YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat and so I have these 34 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:06,480 apps on my phone and then I delete them and I remember over the summer going into junior year 35 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:13,360 like the literally the last day of school sophomore year I decided to delete my YouTube app and my 36 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:20,640 Snapchat app and so I deleted it and then I said I'm not going to watch YouTube anymore guess what 37 00:04:20,640 --> 00:04:26,480 I failed you know why because I just went on to YouTube on the browser and went and searched 38 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:32,640 YouTube that way it's because I was still addicted and they still had my information too so they were 39 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:40,320 able to make a excellent feed for me and like a perfect YouTube feed for me like recommended 40 00:04:40,320 --> 00:04:45,520 videos so I was able to they were able to hook me into it and keep me on that app for a long time 41 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:53,520 and so over the course of a couple months I started deleting my accounts like initially I 42 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:58,960 deleted my Instagram which no one really noticed because I wasn't on that anyways so I deleted that 43 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:06,480 account permanently and I remember it takes 30 days for it to actually delete and so for that first 44 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:12,160 30 day period I'm just sitting there restless because I just want it to be deleted as soon as 45 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:19,280 possible and I just kind of have to wait in a stagnant state or like a suspended state I have 46 00:05:19,280 --> 00:05:27,200 to wait in a suspended state for this account to delete so I can get the benefits of like having 47 00:05:27,200 --> 00:05:34,560 that clear mind and so I the the account finally deletes and then in this time I'm deleting my 48 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:41,680 TikTok account my personal TikTok account and then I'm deleting my and then I okay so I deleted my 49 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:48,160 TikTok account and that was a huge thing because even though I wasn't really using it much I deleted 50 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:55,040 the account which was huge because I don't you can never know like it's impossible to explain this 51 00:05:55,680 --> 00:06:04,080 until you actually experience it because I'm basically what it's like to delete your account 52 00:06:04,080 --> 00:06:09,440 is like lifting this burden it's like taking off the weight jacket and the thing is that 53 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:16,480 when you delete the app and keep the account you don't actually take off the weight jacket it's kind 54 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:24,320 of like putting a coat over the weight jacket so you like don't see it anymore but it's still there 55 00:06:24,320 --> 00:06:28,400 weighing you down that's basically how it is deleting your social media accounts 56 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:38,000 you when you delete the app but not the account you're basically covering the wound and you're 57 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:46,800 basically covering your jacket your weight vest with a jacket and so when you delete the account 58 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:52,960 you're completely taking off the weight vest so you're actually you're actually alleviating the 59 00:06:52,960 --> 00:07:00,880 pain and the stress from social media and so I deleted the TikTok and then eventually I deleted 60 00:07:00,880 --> 00:07:08,240 the Snapchat account which that was the main thing and that took some like I don't really remember my 61 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:14,800 emotional feeling around the time but I'm sure that it took some serious willpower and determination 62 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:23,120 to actually delete that thing because for the one for the first for the most part or first first of all 63 00:07:23,120 --> 00:07:28,320 I was that was my main form of communicating with other people and I would go on the stories and I'll 64 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:34,000 just see how everyone's life was and it wasn't until after I deleted the account that I realized how 65 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:43,040 damaging that is to myself opening pictures sent from other people that they barely even know me 66 00:07:43,040 --> 00:07:51,200 just opening a picture of them it's just so damaging and then also seeing their Snapchat stories 67 00:07:51,920 --> 00:07:57,200 that actually destroys your mental health and I didn't even realize it at the time because it's 68 00:07:57,200 --> 00:08:03,680 one of those silent but deadly kind of things like you don't really notice it but after the fact 69 00:08:03,680 --> 00:08:11,200 like now in hindsight reflecting on that that actually messes you up checking those stories 70 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:18,320 because the worst part is all those people that I checked their stories I barely even know them 71 00:08:18,320 --> 00:08:25,520 I'm not even friends with them in real life and I'm still destroying my mental health over that 72 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:33,600 so it's a terrible thing so the lesson that I learned that I want to share with you is that one 73 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:40,000 of the best things that you can do is delete your social media accounts and I have proof of this 74 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:48,160 because I'm not the only one that like I actually told someone this advice my friend he is on 75 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:53,600 self-improvement as well and over the summer I was getting so much good benefits from deleting 76 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:59,600 social media and I wanted to share the knowledge and share the wealth with my friend because that's 77 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:03,760 what we would do we would share everything we're learning with each other and we still do that to 78 00:09:03,760 --> 00:09:10,160 this day which by the way expect an episode coming up about getting a friend on self-improvement 79 00:09:10,160 --> 00:09:14,160 or finding a friend on self-improvement because that's another topic I want to talk about but 80 00:09:15,120 --> 00:09:20,000 pretty much I told my friend to delete his accounts and he was a little 81 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:29,440 he didn't want to do it at first he was a little resistant but with little debate like basically 82 00:09:29,440 --> 00:09:39,520 meaning that after I just said just do it he did it anyways he did it and he definitely he did not 83 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:46,160 regret it and I could tell because I'm not sure if he actually told me how valuable it was but he 84 00:09:46,160 --> 00:09:51,280 said that well actually yeah he did say like pretty much the week after he was like this is so valuable 85 00:09:51,280 --> 00:09:56,480 thank you so much like the only reason why I was keeping social media was because and then he had 86 00:09:56,480 --> 00:10:03,920 his own reason everyone has their own reason but I like I said I'm still this happened like maybe 87 00:10:03,920 --> 00:10:11,840 four months ago five months ago and so I actually just talked to him again we had a mastermind which 88 00:10:11,840 --> 00:10:18,560 expect an episode coming up about masterminds also so we had a mastermind the other day and 89 00:10:19,280 --> 00:10:24,640 he said that that was the best advice you've ever given me deleting the social media accounts 90 00:10:24,640 --> 00:10:30,960 he told me that was the best advice that you have ever given me