What a massively boost your productivity. Take your cell phone out right now. Find every social media app and hit Delete. And look at my phone right here. You won't find Facebook, you don't find Twitter, you don't find any other social media. It's not because I don't like social media.
I am active on social media. I have more than 10,000 followers on Facebook. I've had collectively millions of views on my YouTube channels. But here's the thing if it's on your phone, and they're sending you alerts, and that's what you go to. Every time you have a spare minute, or a lunch break or coffee break, it corrodes your brain. It distracts you It destroys your productivity.
Now, if you were a Social Media Manager for a major corporation or institution, okay, you get a pass but I'm assuming that's not you. Your job and for most people that isn't I'm active in social media. But if I'm not looking at something for four hours or eight hours, nothing really bad happens to me, my career or my business. I carve out a specific small set of time, early in the morning where I look at social media and I try to limit it to just once more, and I can do that on a PC or laptop or a desktop, and it's more controlled. When it's on the cell phone. It's just too easy.
You're on the phone with someone else. You look at it, you're taking a lunch break, you look at it. You are about to do something you want to diversion from an important task. You look at it and now you're swept in in some debate on Twitter. Now, if you are a full time political commentator, pundit, and you need to get into fights on Twitter, by all means, do it. I'm assuming that's not your full time job.
So you're We're going to save massive amounts of time. declutter your brain. And you're going to prepare your brain to just be much more productive if you don't have all this clutter. So I'm begging you, your friends will forgive you. If it takes seven hours to respond or hit some light on something they put on Facebook, that's going to matter to them in the long run. But to you, it's going to dramatically boost your productivity, please delete all social media apps, please post in the q&a section right now.
What social media apps are on your phone, and are you willing to delete them, please post that now.