How to Stop Consuming Content and Start Creating it Instead
We consume so much content on a regular basis and quite frankly, I can’t blame us because it’s so easy to get caught up! I find myself opening up a social media app for a specific reason and 20 minutes later (after scrolling), asking myself why I opened it in the first place. It’s easy to get consumed in other people’s content that we fail to create more of our own! So here’s 4 quick tips on how you can stop consuming content and start creating it instead.
Set a Timer
What helps me limit my content consumption on any social media app is setting a timer. If I get caught up with scrolling endlessly, the timer is a way to snap me back into reality. This helps me significantly as there’s been times I’ve spent an hour consuming content and didn’t even realize it! That entire hour could’ve been utilized by creating my own content instead of scrolling through others.
Disable Notifications
I used to think I needed to see every single notification from my social media apps or else I’d miss something. Once I decided to overall limit my time on social media, I knew the best thing to keep me off of it would be disabling the notifications. This helps significantly because you don’t get a “reminder” to log back in. . . especially if you weren’t thinking of it to begin with. I learned very quickly that turning off notifications did not prevent me from missing out anything!
RELATED: 6 Ways to Become a Productive Blogger
Have a Purpose
Frequently, I would find myself opening apps just to be opening them and scrolling for however long I wanted to. After realizing how much time I truly wasted with doing that, I made it a habit to never log on without having a purpose. For example, I will open an app with the purpose to engage with my current community and new accounts. This way, instead of just scrolling and in-taking content, I’m always growing my account(s) by engaging and meeting new people.
Plan Ahead
What helps me significantly with creating my content is planning it all ahead of time. I curate it, finalize my caption and schedule it to post automatically. Once it’s scheduled, everything is pretty much out of sight out of mind! I like this because I’m not obsessing over numbers or lurking all day online. . . it’s literally that phrase “set it and forget it!”
What are some other ways that you keep from consuming more content than you take in? Let me know in the comments and don’t forget to subscribe!
Take your life to the next level
I see this all too often where women stop chasing their dreams due to fear of failure, judgement of others and life excuses. So I created my program to help women break free, gain their confidence, shift the mindset and start executing! If you’re ready to take your life to the next level, CLICK HERE to reserve your spot!
Until next time ASSASSINS. . . Stay Disciplined!
Let’s be friends!
Follow me on Instagram @MissAshleyAllison Twitter @MsAshleyAllison and Snapchat @MsAshleyAllison.