10 Tips To Stop Wasting Time Online [0:00:00]
So, a friend of mine hired a woman to sit next to him and slap him if he got on Facebook
or other distracting websites.
I think it’s a bit extreme, but I think we can all agree that we’re wasting too
much time online.
So, how to fix this problem?
Guys, that’s the subject of today’s video.
[Music] Oh, and before I get into these ten tips,
guys, stick around until the end, I’ve got a bonus tip you’ll absolutely going to love.
Tip number one to stop wasting time online.
Get rid of your power cord both for your computer and for your phone.
What am I talking about?
Setting up an artificial time limit so that you stop wasting time and you focus on what’s
important because the clock is ticking.
That sounds too extreme?
Okay.
Well, just simply grab a kitchen timer, a couple of bucks there.
We’re talking about the Pomodoro Technique where you actually set a timer and then, hey,
you’ve got to get it done in twenty minutes, you’ve got to get it done in thirty minutes.
You’re gaming the system so you’re focused on what needs to be done and you avoid distractions.
Tip number two.
Go old school.
Paper, pen.
A lot of your work can still be done like this.
You’ve got to share it with people electronically after you’re done, simply take a picture
and send it out to people.
Next up, don’t co-mingle.
You want to have work devices, you want to have personal devices.
But, here’s the deal.
If you’ve got a phone and it has both personal and work on it, guess what?
You’re never going to stop working and during your work time, you’re going to start – you’re
going to go into time wasters.
You’re going to have fun, you’re going to get into your personal things, you’re
going to log into Facebook.
But, if you’ve got that separation, then you realized, hey, I don’t actually have
to have the same apps and all those other stuff on each device.
And, for me, it’s important that I’m actually I’m able to access social media.
I understand that is a need for my business, however I keep it over here on the work iPad
versus having it on my computer.
The next tip to stop wasting time online, reduce the number of hours that you are working
every single day.
And I know not everyone can do this, but if you work for yourself if you are an entrepreneur
or you have a job that is remote, think about how to condense that time.
Because if you give yourself fourteen hours a day to work, well, guess what?
You’re probably not a hundred percent productive that fourteen hours, maybe like six hours,
so why not work only those six hours and get done what needs to get done.
Now, gents, I have to admit, I am not perfect when it comes to this.
I have wasted a lot of time online and I hated it whenever I was worried about my online
security.
I’m traveling around the world I’ve got to be able to access PayPal from airports.
I’m in a country that it’s just not very secure in my opinion and I’ve got to be
able to access my bank accounts, my emails, and I was spending a lot of time trying to
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The next tip for avoiding online time wasters, turn off notifications.
In fact, turn off your phone.
Yes, I know that sounds extreme, but simply turn it off when you don’t need it, when
you’re not expecting calls.
Guys, most emergencies believe it or not, they’re not going to happen when you’ve
got your phone turned off.
You could also just simply turn it on silent.
Use the airplane mode.
So many different ways that you can stop this thing from buzzing from jumping into your
life and sucking you back into the internet where those time wasters are just waiting
for you.
My next tip to stop wasting time online, do not save passwords on your computer.
You should have to manually enter your passwords every time.
I know, it’s a hassle, right?
It’s a pain in the butt.
And guess what?
If you have to do that, you are much less likely to just randomly access that social
media site or go over and distract yourself here because there’s a little bit of work,
there’s a little bit of barrier and that barrier right there can save you from getting
sucked down that rabbit hole.
The next tip to stop wasting time online, change your environment.
Our environment has a huge effect on how we behave and how we feel.
And if you’re stuck in an office at home, there’s no one around you, guess what?
You’ve got no one that’s holding you accountable.
Not that going to a coffee shop you can have anyone like that’s going to say, hey, you’re
browsing on Facebook.
But, it is something, hey, I’m at some place new, I’m able to focus in and I found – I
had a café I used to go to that had no internet and it just simply allowed me to focus in
on what I needed to get done.
[0:05:06] My next tip to avoid online time wasters is
to schedule personal events throughout the day that are with other people.
And I know, this sounds counterintuitive, but here’s the deal is that you can only
focus a set amount of time.
And we’ve all got things that we have to when you have to do them with other people
whether it’s going to the gym whether it’s meeting your family for a meal at lunch whether
in the afternoon it’s meeting up with the mastermind of your peers, as long as these
are productive things that you need to do and actually you put value on all of a sudden,
you’re going to feel great about your day.
And because you’re meeting other people, you are going to be held accountable to those
times by breaking it up and actually rewarding myself throughout the day, guys, that’s
going to be a very productive day and I find that it helps me live a better life.
So, this next tip to stop wasting time online, I absolutely love, it makes me smile and that
is every man should have a bedtime.
Yes, I am serious.
I think that every man should have a set time that he starts to go into his evening routine
and just make it so that electronics so that going online is not part of that routine.
For me, I love it when my wife goes in and she reads to the kids because I get to sneak
away and go read my books.
And I – I’ve got all these fantasy books, science fiction, I absolutely love and relish
this time that I’m just able to sit there and read.
And, guys, you want to have something in your routine that you look forward to and it’s
so much better than going online and having something force-fed you or just mindlessly
surfing the web.
No!
My phones are kept downstairs in the kitchen and I enjoy my evening routine.
So, my next tip to stop wasting time online is to purge your phone, purge your electronic
devices of apps you do not need, apps you do not use, apps that could suck you into
a place that you do not want to go.
If the app is sitting there, guys, it’s just a temptation to fall into it and to wonder,
oh, what’s going on on Facebook?
I’ve got nothing else going on.
Now, I did mention a bonus at the beginning, so here it is.
Why do we procrastinate?
Why do we waste time?
And, most people think it’s because you’re lazy or because you don’t want to do what
needs to get done.
That is not the case.
What is it?
Why do we procrastinate?
I think the person that has done the best job explaining this is Mel Robbins in her
book, The 5 Second Rule.
Now, you can watch the video right here in which she explains it much better than me
exactly why we procrastinate.
Her explanation is just awesome, so go check out the video, guys.
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Guys, that’s it.
Take care.
I’ll see you in the next video.
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But other people probably are.
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