I don’t know about you but I spend a lot of hours here. I mean like 4 or even 5 hours a day. With new reputation system an immense amount of great and diverse content is produced every single hour.

Obviously we cannot read all of the posts because there will be no time left for other things to do. That’s why I want to share 5 tips on how to decrease your level of addiction to Steemit (in a good way).

Set time boundaries to read posts

Brendon Burchard, one of the top leaders in high performance, once said “If it is scheduled, it is not a distraction”.

Basically the major part of what we accomplish throughout the day has nothing to do with what we intended to achieve in the first place. Therefore if we can set a time range for reading, commenting and upvoting posts, we can significantly improve our productivity.

You can set 3 hours (or whatever the time you want) to read the posts, and disperse those hours during the day by using time blocks. For instance, you can create 2 blocks of 1 hour each to read the posts and one hour to comment. The main key here is maintain a single activity.

Of course the amount of hours dedicated towards reading depends on the availability of free time. You probably have a job that is still important to you, and having constant interruptions in any form is damaging your results. Nobody wants that, thus we have to control ourselves.

Use ReadLater apps in the road

If you have some free time while you’re in the road, meaning you’re not driving a car but using a public transport, then I can recommend you to use such apps like Pocket or Instapaper in order to save the blogs that you want to read but you don’t have time available at the moment.

Those apps can also help to save your favorite posts for the future, especially if they are related to your job or they are just inspiring stories.

Have separate devices for reading and blogging

This one helps a lot. But what does this separation of actions is intended to do?

You will know that by working on a particular device (let’s take laptop) you will use Steemit just to achieve one goal (create a post and publish it in our case). And if you can sustain this behavior and do not give up, you can save lots of free time that you can use to hang out with friends and your loved ones, or finish your project on time.

Besides, you can use this idea not only for Steemit. For instance, I use my tablet deliberately to check and work with social media. I check my Twitter account, watch youtube videos and check my email on tablet. It is easier to remove all social media notifications from laptop and put them on a separate device. In this way it’s harder to get distracted by random interruption while you’re working on something.

Never check your Steemit account at the morning

I know this is harsh but come on. There was made a study in high performance that if you don’t check your email/social media/anything digital the first and the last hour of your day, you’ll become 30% more productive every week.

By starting your morning with a fresh doze of posts, you’ll lose your focus and desire to do something important at all. Most of the people have no action plan for the day, that’s why they tend to check in and figure out what other people want from them.

Nevertheless, if your priority for today is to make a post for Steemit, make sure you make a post before you’ll jump into the trending section. Once you’ve achieved your top priorities, you can enjoy reading your favorite articles.

Spend more time promoting Steemit

Have you noticed that people who are actively promoting Steemit, are getting rewarded a lot? People create T-shirts, tattoos, drawings, songs, apps, videos and so forth. They are the driving force of Steemit community.

Along with a reading of what others have done as a source of inspiration, you can become the exact inspiration for new users. Everybody can contribute in one way or another.

I guess it will be a lot more valuable for overall growth of Steemit if all of us spend more time on telling our friends about it, establishing meetings etc.

To sum up, I want to say that I adore Steemit and I want it to succeed. At the same time I don’t want anybody to lose their life in this giant ocean of content. So keep posting my friends, keep reading and upvoting but don’t remember to take a rest from time to time :)

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