I've effectively been off social media for over 6 months now. Here is the method I used to break the cycle. The first day is hardest, then next few days and so

I've effectively been off social media for over 6 months now. Here is the method I used to break the cycle. The first day is hardest, then next few days and so on, but focusing on the first day is the only thing that matters to get the momentum. Do not worry about the other days, just the first day. Day 1, took a blank piece of paper and drew 2 lines horizontally, then split that bar up into 10ish slices with vertical lines. I wrote the number of the current hour in the first box, and next hour in the next box etc. That is it, I just sliced the day up into hours. Then I stopped using social with the help of the Hide Feed (.com) extension, I ended up paying for it, such a priceless investment for me. And I shaded in part of the hour for the first few hours or so, or even days later when it was harder. And so I had this gamification chart and just filled it in. I would usually write another one the next day etc, but eventually drew out a couple week grid and had like 30 days or so. That doesn't matter until you get past the first day though, just use daily sheets for now. I call them XogoCharts (gamification charts, xogo == game in Galacian (https://translate.google.com/?sl=auto&tl=en&text=xogo&op=translate https://translate.google.com/?sl=auto&tl=en&text=xogo&op=tra...). I used to do them up on a computer and make pie charts etc for book chapters etc, but found them to be more effective if I just draw them up in real time with pencil and eraser, the tech was a distraction. I still visit HN on occasion (it is useful for my career), but I've been social/news _feed_ consumption free for well over 6 months now. It was the feeds that really exhausted me.