Iâve added myself to the scoreboard.
I want to go back to doing my dopamine detox, where I leave my phone downstairs, and only check in the morning and evening once. Iâve been doing no social media/YT for two weeks now. I have been wasting time reading the news though, which isnât useful at all.
Iâm glad you made this challenge.
Welcome to the challenge buddy! Its actually a step of dopamine detox! I think we got a strong challenger here !!!
The challenge hasnât started yet, but I have. Therefore I want to share my progress today.
Today I spent 15 minutes in my food tracker, adding my food I ate today, 3x 5 minutes.
I also spent 5 minutes doing Duolingo Italian.
I spent about 10 minutes wasting time on my computer.
I will also include my useless computer time, because itâs like a second phone to me. I wonât include time I spend practising my drawing or watching useful toturials, because I donât feel this is time wastage.
I also went running for half an hour without music or phone.
I didnât spend too much time on rewire app. Sometimes I do. If so, I will also include this time.
So my total for today is 30 minutes.
Good luck to all of you guys!
Yes you are absolutely right!!
Try to understand these 2 things
If you even include your productive time on phone, and after that you see the total time you used your phone, you will definitely try to cut out the extra time of unproductivity and convert that much time for productive work too
Note :- you have to add the productive time also if that productive time is of short period ( motivational videos, short period of study on phone.) If this time increases by 1 hour at a time, then you donât have to add it.
Reason behind this :- sometimes, under the name of productive work, our mind gets carried away to use more phone and eventually diverting the productive content to unproductive content.
Some additions in the text for better understanding of the goals of this challenge. Check it
I think thatâs a good rule, if you study for over an hour using phone/computer, youâre probably focused, and not wasting time. However, watching motivational videos can quickly become mindless browsing. I donât watch these types of videos for this reason, except on the rewire forum, because I canât browse further on here.
Good thing!! Keep working hard brother
Welcome to the challenge brother @SelfMadeNinja
Please read all the âknow the rulesâ and âscoreboard rulesâ carefully brother. Dont miss out anything.
there is an app (KASPERSKY SAFE KIDS ON PLAY STORE)
1- install it
2- make an account on gmail or,yahoo or yandex.
3-now sign up in kaspersky website with your gmail account.
4- now sign in in yiur kaspersky app in phn
5- now go to kaspersky website and open devices and yiu ll see following options which yiu can use.
1= you can restrict any app usage time
2= you can block any app
3= you can filter internet search
4- you can limit phn usage time
5- the best thing is that yiu cant uninstall this
app.
* just change your gmail account password and kaspersky account password that you dont know .
randomly change password in both accounts.
now you are fully secured from p**** and mobile addiction.
While this sounds great in theory, Iâm reluctant to install an app from Kaspersky and be unable to uninstall it. And besides, if you really want to, thereâs always a way, like factory resetting your phone. I keep it simple with BlockerX and Truple web filter, for which no account is needed and with which no russian security companies are involved. Just like I removed all of the Chinese software from my phone, I wonât install Russian software. There is no racism or discrimination intended. Itâs just that these companies donât have a very good track record regarding privacy.
On another subject, I wouldnât completely block out anything permanently, even if that were possible. Building up self-discipline is more important in my view, so you are the blocker, and shouldnât need a program that takes over your phone and tells you that you canât use it anymore. What if thereâs an emergency?
Maybe in the first few weeks, it would be useful, but after that I donât think itâs necessary, and I think it could be dangerous.
Thanks for the post anyways, as every contribution could be useful to somebody.
I personally wouldnât do it though.
My report for today:
7 minutes food tracking,
15 minutes Duolingo.
45 minutes rewire app, replying and reading. Not excessive.
Duolingo is a different kind of case when weâre looking at the rules for studying. Youâd never do an hour of Duolingo, but I donât think it should count towards âaddiction timeâ. I force myself to at least keep up my streak in Duolingo, which takes 5 minutes, but I donât mind learning more.
Now that Iâve done two days of dopamine detox, Iâm more productive, more willing to work out and go outside, and my feelings are once again more vibrant. If youâre just now starting nofap, youâll feel the same things after a while. Same goes for this challenge. When nofap became the new normal for me, I neglected to recgonise my phone excessive usage, which led to me experiencing less benefit from nofap. Dopamine detox is essential to living happily and in the moment, with ultimate self-control.
@Attempt_Two_Electric_Boogaloo
do you know some russian or chinese apps for blocking adult content and they are unable to uninstall
Good work @Attempt_Two_Electric_Boogaloo
Being inspired by you, Iâll write my report for 2 days
My report for past 2 days :-
Im using my phone a lot because im working on the translations for this app and i would like to complete it before this challenge starts.
No youtube, less whatsapp, no webseries, no movies, no facebook.
45 minutes :- game time (2 days total)
Changes made for those who want to use different kind of phone usage tracking apps. I respect your feelings and your ideas.
Also small motivation also included :-
Go check it out!!
My experience with phone tracking/blocking apps :-
1 year ago, for studying purpose i used a phone usage tracking app which could lock my phone completely for the decided amount of time. And if i had to unlock my phone i had to pay the app a certain amount of money to gain basic access to the phone.
Thing that i noticed is that, it was me who set the locking timer which was of 2 hours most of the time. During those 2 hours most of my attention was like :- âdamn, when are these 2 hours going to endâ the only thing that came in front of my eyes were âthat 2 hours timerâ
Thatâs why I donât want to use such apps this time.
This is what we need in us. Well said brother @Attempt_Two_Electric_Boogaloo
Also there was an emergency at that time and i couldnât respond to that because that app wanted me to pay money to them to gain phone access.
Todayâs screen time report :-
Completed the translation work. Got a notification from my phoneâs inbuilt system of checking my screen time. You wonât believe, it was 10 hours 22 mins for today.
Since the work is done. Iâm starting my detox from tomorrow itself. I mentioned todayâs screen time score to see how much change detox can bring in me.
Added a cabinet to keep all your medals separately for good maintenance and appearance of the scoreboard.
Doing all of this updating rules and other stuffs for you all guys so that u face no problem in future and to conduct this challenge properly.
All i want in return is everyone to be honest about updating your own scores. Let this challenge be a fair one.
Todayâs screen time, that i counted myself :- 5 hours
Half of yesterdayâs score.
Tomorrowâs target :-. Half of todayâs score. I will do it this time. Im not giving up.
I feel like a fire has started burning inside me to achieve my daily goals for the ultimate goal.