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i am a phone addict plz tell me how to come out.....

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Shovan Chowdhury

While my friends were busy with their study, career plan, passion, and dream. But i was busy to run day and night in smart phone game temple run and spend plenty of time to attack the treasure in clash of clans. Moreover, I used to check Facebook, Instagram notifications, texting through whatsApp, taking pictures, listening music, download apps, googling, changing smartphone wallpapers within few minutes continuously in my smartphone. I can't sit anywhere even 5 minutes without browsing my smart phone. I spend on average 14–15 hours time in smartphone per day.

The consequence was bitter. Graduated with low CGPA, deep down in frustration, lack of concentration power, involved with a time-wasting virtual relationship, distracted from life's goal, fueled stress and anxiety, unemployed for two years, all of the friends got high-paid job except me. I stopped communicating with friends, relatives, neighbors and hiding in my room as like I have done a crime. At one stage, I wanted to commit suicide because I have started to face emotional imbalance due to several failures and depression. Smart phone addiction snatched my good academic result, career, happiness, friends, relationship, and emotion.

it was fluctuating. Fortunately I did not lose my strong-will. I was starting to aware about my problem. I tried several times to overcome the smart phone addiction but I failed. I failed 10 times within 6 months. But I did not dishearten. I tried again and again. I have reduced smart phone addiction gradually. Finally, I am starting to become successful. Today I don't have smart phone addiction anymore. I followed multiple steps for getting rid of smartphone addiction:

Start from little and make it large:  I started from small. But I had to stick with this good practice. Initially, I reduced from 15 hours to 14.5 hours usage per day. Then I gradually decreased my smartphone usage like 10, 8,7,6, 5,4,3,2 hours. I started from little but made it large by consistency, hard work and determination to improve myself.Challenge myself :  My life had almost ruined. It was becoming worst day by day. If I could not prove to myself let alone to prove myself to outside of the world. I took it as a challenge now or never. Deleting all the game and addictive apps : I used to play angry birds, temple run, clash of clans all day and night. Even I played temple run few minutes ago of starting my university semester final exams. As a part of getting rid of smart phone addiction, I deleted all the games and addictive apps from my smart phone.Deactivate and withdraw myself from social media : I would love to text through Whatsapp every single minute. Moreover, I could not wait a single day to upload my photos in Instagram. Besides, Facebook was my best friend where I would like to spend time 24x7. I deactivated Facebook and stopped using WhatsApp and Instagram to reduce smartphone addiction.Stopped pointless internet browsing: I was habituated to spend time on internet and pointless browsing. I opened 15–20 tabs simultaneously at different browser at smartphone. I googled at every 2–3 minutes at several topics. I have withdrawn myself my pointless internet browsing. It helped me to reduce my smartphone usage. Practicing Zero distraction and peace of mind : I started to do meditation and yoga. Moreover, I did visualization everyday. Visualization is a system where you can create a mental image that success of future at present moment. These things are very crucial for life. It helped me to stop distracting my mind, zero distraction and achieve peace of mind.Finding my passion : I am doing job to support my livelihood. But it's not my passion, my destination is somewhere else. I have found my passion. That is writing journal everyday. Neither I am good at writing nor I earn a dollar from my writing but I love to do it. Perhaps this is a work which I can do 24 hours without getting bored and tired. My passion accelerated my efforts for keeping away from smartphone addiction.Get 1% better everyday : I followed a simple rule. Getting 1% better everyday. So, I followed daily schedule, experimented on several things, learned something new everyday etc. I started to track my progress day to day wise. Moreover, I reduced addiction hours at smartphone and kept myself busy at different works.The Pursuit of knowledge : When we want to get rid of one bad habit, we have to eject another good habit in our life to replace the old one. I began to read a lot instead of using smart phone. No PDF book or kindle version. I like printed books. I have read thousands of fiction, non-fiction novels, short stories self help books etc. The Diary of Anne frank, Mother-Maxim Gorky, the power of positive living-Norman Vincent Peale enhanced my pursuit of knowledge. Knowledge changed my mindset and rediscovered myself.