Stay Focused: Take Charge of Your Social Media Life

And so Warren Buffet and Bill Gates, (richest men in the world at different times for many years) were asked to mention a single trait that helped them on their journey through becoming who they are, both men, without thinking twice and seeking each other's consent answered "Focus"!. 

Right now, we are in an age where everyone is afraid to talk about focus, cause few people really focus and almost everyone is guilty of not focusing. To stay focus is more difficult than getting a three square meal, especially for millenials. 

The danger of having too many distraction generators is that we rarely achieve much and our thoughts are most tangential.

Leonardo Da Vinci was an extraordinarily intelligent man. Leonardo had a wide range of interest. He did almost everything, however, his partaking of everything came with a price. He didn't do all that he was supposed to do and completed very few of his works, according to the ones he started! Once Leonardo won a covered commission to create a statue of a nobleman perched on a horse, as he often does, Leonardo procrastinated by deciding to check up on how a horse anatomy was. He dissected a horse, created new systems for feeding horses and designed cleaner stables.  In the long run, Leonardo didn't complete the statue and never published his theses on horses!

Even abundant relevant information, activities, can be dangerous. 

Many a time, in the heat of a surfing session, I come to the realization that I am not browsing what actually made me switch on my data in the first place. I have been distracted by Facebook, enticed by Instagram and presently "just checking notifications on Twitter". At the end of the day, not only have I not found what I was seeking for, I have forgotten what I was seeking for. 

To survive we must do something. We must take charge of our lives and do what we ought to do! 

Smartphones are integrally part of our lives but they shouldn't be our lives. A mechanism must be found that helps us make productive use of these devices and platforms. And something, must control our distractions. 

I found my "Prince Charming" in an app called called "Stay Focused". 

With the focused, I have set up my device such that the total time I can spend on a particular social media app is 1 hour for each day. In the morning Stay Focused begin reading my logs on all social media applications and other applications, once I have reached the 1 hour mark on any social media app, I am blocked until the next day. For the rest of the that day, no Facebook or WhatsApp or Instagram. 

I cannot tell you how much this app has helped me. I'm now a "slave", but not of "online" but of "offline". I have more time to read, talk with friends and focus on what's important. And by the way, every morning I wake up knowing I have just 1 hour for social media so whatever I'm doing there have to be the most important things. 

The rules for having a fulfilled life haven't changed, focus is key. In an age of distraction, if the two richest men of our time are saying the same thing, we should listen.

Stay Focused!  Take charge.