Why Wait?

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Resolutions are always a part of the new year. Everyone proposes change in their heart but not everyone can see it through. I, for one, have stopped looking forward to the new year for the sake of resolutions or change. I mean, change comes everyday as long as you let it and the concept of resolutions at the beginning of the year just makes it less effective to me.

What I believe in and actually do is set goals. I have goals for the year and mine for the new year begins the previous year. For the 04th Day of the December Inleo Initiative , the question posed by the Digital Lifestyle community is if we would consider digital detox for the new year.

Like I said, I don’t believe in starting the new year with new things. To me, and from experience, that is just another way to fail at it. If there is something I want to change, I don’t wait for a time to come (like I used to), I just begin and apply discipline to see it through. Then I take it into the new year. That is exactly what I have been doing all the months from November till now.

I started my detox with my favourite app, Spotify. First, I cleared all songs that do not speak the message I want to receive and the only messages I want to receive from here on out is love. The next was my socials. What I did was unfriend those who needed to be, people not adding to my life in any way, delete and block numbers, throw away pictures and re-strategise my work life.

This all sounds like a new year thing, but that stopped for me since I turned eighteen. New year resolutions on the new year doesn’t work for me, it just makes my brain question if I should have waited that long in the first place.

I have deleted so many apps that pose a distraction and just left those I need for work and to communicate with my friends. So my detox already began and Hive was on that list. Left Discord servers, unsubscribe from as many communities as I could and next, I will start unfollowing people I don’t interact with. This I also did with my socials, especially on WhatsApp. There is no reason to still keep up numbers when they are already down. Holding on to things for sentimental reasons is only adding to the fire. Best to let them go now.

Another thing worth mentioning is that I can’t totally detoxify since my whole work life is digital. Meetings, calls, sales and recruitment. All done online. What I do though is fall off the face of the earth every once a while. My days of total detoxification are Saturdays and Sundays. I may not even write a post or make a peep. What I’ll be doing is reading a book (hard copy), journaling my thoughts, sleeping, eating and taking strolls with music. That is all the detox I need and it happens every week.