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What it's Like Quitting Instagram Cold Turkey (for a while)
Time is so precious. Whether we always realize that or act like it, we know the truth of that statement at our deepest level when we think about it. So if that is true, how do we know we are treating time as the rare and irretrievable resource that it is?
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I recently built my own website to be the center spoke of my creative flywheel. Don’t worry I’m still writing here on Medium too, and I’ll often cross-post my best pieces both places.
For this piece, I published a snippet below with a link to the full piece on my website.
It would mean a lot to me if you could click through and finish the article and let me know what you think of my new space!
BACK TO THE ARTICLE…
We have to ask where we spend our time. And for a lot of us, that is in front of our mobile screens. I definitely fit into that category, but I was not sure that I was making good use of the time on my devices. Within our screens, for a lot of us, we are on Instagram throughout the day. That was where I began to question my personal use of this time on the screen.
So I decided to do something about it. I have experimented with quitting or limiting areas of social media…
