Ditching Social Media? Here’s How to Invest Your Newfound Time
Turn your hard-earned free time into something that actually helps you
It’s common to reach a breaking point with the internet.
It can be an overload of information and opinions. It can make you feel bad about yourself and the world around you. It’s not healthy.
I decided to yank myself off of social media for this reason. I needed to give myself a break from talking to people online. It became too much.
But I’ve found other useful ways to spend my time on and offline.
Subscribe to some interesting websites
I spent the first hour of my morning reading the Wall Street Journal.
This is a paid service. Its high-quality writing comes at a cost. But what’s a measly $4 a month when you’re getting such interesting stories back?
I read about the Faroe Islands and how each year, thousands of people travel there on their own dime to work for free, building fences to contain the masses of grazing sheep.
It sounds insane, but it’s true.
Why do people do this? You get to shack up with some locals, learn about their way of life, and spend time on the…
