How to Manage Your Time on Your Phone

Have you ever felt like your life is so very boring, that you cannot live without your phone or other electronic stuff? Are you feeling fear of missing out? If you feel like that, that means you are addicted to your phone. But how to get out of this bad habit? Actually this bad habit can make us have bad emotional control, in this case this bad habit can make us feel depressed, stressed and our friends can become distant from us. 

Smartphones are like a double edged sword, in one way it can give benefits for us but in another phones can make us depend on it, and make us always worry. But it's good for us to use electronic stuff according to the function such as searching for some information, paying the bills, or watching the tutorial video to help solve problems in daily activity. Addicted to the phone cannot be solved in one day, but by doing good and healthy habits, this bad habit can slowly disappear. But what can we do to solve this bad habit?

First, you have to be aware of this bad habit, with the awareness you may see the impact of this habit. The second thing that you can do is make some small goals. Such as: do not use your phone when you're eating, close your phone when you're talking with your friends or your family, and do not use your phone 1 hour before sleep at night. By doing these good habits, you begin the small step to be more productive to manage yourself. 

 

The third step that you can do is doing healthy activities, such as reading a book or comic, doing some workout, and chatting with your friends or people around you. By doing these activities you will feel difficult because you get bored, and you want to go back doing your bad habits again. There are some solutions to avoid this feeling which is building some self confidence such as getting to know about yourself and deciding the purpose of doing that activity.

The next step is having self control from playing with the smartphone, such as managing time to playing the smartphone, and making a notification for self control with the smartphone. This step is very important because by doing self control we can avoid negative feelings, such as FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out). Sometimes it is important to be indifferent to your friend's opinion about you. Don't be afraid to lose some friends, maybe it's a better situation when you are being yourself.

The last step is doing it consistently. By doing the same activity consistently it will build good and better behavior. There is a quote from Dr. Maxwell Maltz from his book “Psycho-Cybernetics” that says “If we do the same activity more than 21 times, that activity will be a part of our behavior.” I know this is the hardest part. Maybe in your daily activity there must be some important things that you do by phone. Such as doing the deadline task or more activities that you do by using the phone. (L. N.)