121. How To Be Awesome At Consuming Social Media In A Healthy Way
How To Be Awesome At Everything
Lindsay Dickhout
4.6 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2021
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Moderation is key for a lot of things in life and Lindsay thinks it's REALLY true with social media.
In this episode, we're talking about being present and aware of how your social media consumption makes you feel… and also… how to use it with intention and pay attention to how much time you're on it.
We've all looked up and realized we've just spent 2 or 3 hours by accident scrolling social when we should really be sleeping or working or spending time with our family… and while Lindsay thinks it's a great way to get ideas and learn more about things you love and it can be so inspiring… it can also make us feel badly about our own lives if we allow ourselves to compare what we're doing to what other people are doing on social…
And it's just so easy to get sucked in and get addicted to it and spend more time on it than we want to. So on this one, Lindsay is sharing some important facts about social media and lots of tips for how to use social media in the most healthy way.
Lindsay starts with some facts:
📲 We spend 3 hours per day on social media.
📲 3 billion people are on social media.
📲 210 million people are said to have social media addictions
📲 Facebook has 1.4 billion active users daily
📲 50% of people driving look at social media while driving
Some tips covered:
☀️ don't do it first thing in the morning
☀️ realize you're seeing the best part of peoples's lives
☀️ do it as your entertainment / relaxation
☀️ use time blocking
☀️ set timer if you need to
☀️ remove notifications
☀️ if you post for business - setup ahead of time so it doesnt bring you to the app for long periods of time
☀️ don't let trolls affect you - go into it knowing that by putting yourself out there you will get negativity
☀️ don't post in real time
☀️ don't even click on it when you're spending time with ones you love- for me its about not starting - resist - so you dont get sucked in
Things to be mindful of:
❤️ be mindful of how its affecting you
❤️ don't go on during bad days
❤️ put your mental health first
❤️ stop comparing yourself to others- use it as inspiration
❤️ make sure for the most part its enhancing your life - connecting you with friends, inpsiring and new ideas!
Social media can bring so much joy to our lives… we just have to be smart about it!
CHEERS and see you on social!❤️❤️
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| 0:00.0 | To me, moderation is key for a lot of things in life, and I really think it's true with social media. |
| 0:05.9 | Today, we're talking about being present and aware about how your social media consumption makes you feel, |
| 0:11.0 | and also how to use it with intention and pay attention to how much time you're on it. |
| 0:15.4 | I think we've all looked up and realized we've just spent two or three hours accidentally scrolling social media when we should |
| 0:21.6 | really be sleeping or working or spending time with our family. And while I think it's a great way |
| 0:26.9 | to get ideas and learn more about things you love and it can be so inspiring, it can also make us |
| 0:32.5 | feel badly about our own lives if we allow ourselves to compare what we're doing to what we see other people doing |
| 0:38.4 | on social. And it's just so easy to get sucked in and get addicted to it and spend more time on it |
| 0:44.7 | than we want to. So today, I'm sharing some important facts about social media and lots of tips |
| 0:50.5 | for how to use social media in the most healthy way. Let's go. |
| 0:54.6 | You're listening to the How to Be Awesome at Everything podcast, where we're obsessed |
| 1:00.1 | with life hacks that make your life more awesome. Your host, Lindsay Dickhout, is an |
| 1:05.4 | entrepreneur and business owner, a mom and wife, and someone who wants to do things over |
| 1:10.6 | the top at all times. |
| 1:12.3 | This concept started as a collection of things Lindsay has learned that she was documenting |
| 1:16.7 | to give to her kids one day. And now it's a podcast. Join us on this journey where we talk |
| 1:21.7 | about how to be awesome at everything we do. Here's Lindsay. |
| 1:34.7 | Welcome back to the How to Be Awesome at Everything podcast. |
| 1:40.7 | Today we are talking about how to be awesome at consuming social media in a healthy way. |
| 1:46.6 | I think that this is one of those topics that is definitely worth hitting pause on life for a couple minutes to think about and be aware of. And I think this is a really, I mean, |
| 1:55.1 | this is definitely going to be an ongoing topic for the rest of our lives. And if you have children, |
| 1:59.4 | I think it's one of those things that's important |
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