I understand that a good life, the one you dream of personally and professionally requires deep work. Deep work means focusing on doing something important, ambitious and valuable during a certain time without losing your attention or get distracted.
We live in a world full of distractions, essentially digital distractions called social media. It appears hard to resist your desire to connect but we need to understand the why behind our actions. Many people were interrogated why do they use social media a lot specially facebook, their answers come as follow'' Entertainment, build good friendships, follow and connect with people you're already know''.
The most of us seems to give these excuses in order to ease the feeling that we are wasting our time and attention. We can provide good times in the real life without any use of social media : you can go for a walk, have lunch with your dear ones, spend time with your children, we often choose the easiest option, the less resistive, the well designed and the more seductve.
At first, we should identify the nature of our relation with the meta devices, quit it for a month and then ask yourself these 2 questions: would the last 30 days have been notably better if I had been able to use social media platforms or any other service ?, the second question did people care that I wasn't using this service ?. If your answer for the both questions is No, You may think about quiting it for permanent, in the other hand, if one of the answer is yes, you can still use it but wisely.
we are all humans beigns and we love to live in communities, we seek acceptance and impression but we should know that these kind of connections based on virtual world are fake and have no value in long term.
Mindfullnes is very important, accounting the hours you are consuming in social media is the first step toward improvment because what we think isn't always true, so don't say you know exactly how much do you spend on it without any use of any time management tool.
So let's get right to the tools you need for a deep work :
Localisation : there's always a spot in your house where people do not reach often. so why not employs it for your own advantage. It can be everywhere, most importantly far from distractions.
Environment: The more your environment is empty, the better. A lot of us love to decorate their spaces by diverses things such as fotos, books and souvenirs in order to inspire and motivate them but deep work is far more important than any inspiration because these things bring thoughts to you and thoughts can take your mind away from you.
Set a time: Schedule your tasks and identify in how much time you can get the task done with already preparing all the material you need to accomplish it. It actually saves you from wasting time and falling in the vagueness.
Deep work does not only contribute to your productivity but it allows you to have more time than you thought so you can do everything you enjoy doing it : visiting family, learning languages, practicing your favourite sport. It' s a relief to feel that you have control over your life instead of let it controling you.