These practical tips for reducing your reliance on social media will increase your productivity by 30% a week and give you a minimum of 3 hours’ extra sleep a week. Simple, effective and crucial, here are life coach Brendon Burchard’s steps towards stepping away from the smartphone and living in the real world:
1) Don’t check social media during the first hour of your day.
2) Don’t check social media during the last hour of your day. You can’t get a good night’s sleep if you’re tweeting while in bed.
3) Make sure when you are in a human interaction with somebody, you stay away from your cellphone.
This is why Steve Jobs was suspicious of technology and didn’t let his kids use it too often.