u/tal2151

First day went great. Woke up at 6 am. Felt a bit exhausted but energy came back within a minutes. Worked all the way from around 6 am to 5-6 pm (with a launch break in between) then went to the gym. I decided not to listen to music as it fills me with a ton of cheap domanine so I decided to replace it with educational YT videos (as part of the 1hr daily allowance I have) and audiobooks.

Overall I feel pretty good and happy with today. I was pretty productive and work on multiple things I needed to. Still no widthrawal symptoms haha.

For context - I committed to:

1. ⁠Waking up at 6 am on workdays.
2. ⁠Not using my phone until 12 pm everyday (excluding weekends)
3. ⁠No Social Media & YT until 5pm
4. ⁠No news
5. ⁠No reels/shorts
6. ⁠Total allowed time on social media & YT 1 hour (combined)
7. ⁠No screens 30 mins before bed (Book/connect with GF instead)

Gonna be adding 8. No music (especially at the gym) - replace with audio books / educational YT.

Hi everyone, I’m 28M entrepreneur living a decent life I guess. Digital nomad, living/traveling mostly in Latin America with my GF. Making comfortable amount of money (nowadays around $50k/mo profit) which is trending down-ish compared to previous months but still my cost of living is not too high relative to my income (save about 80% of my income).

I’m not really productive at my business. Probably like 3/10 productive.. I feel like my potential is a lot a lot higher than this but because I do not have my back against the wall part of me sort of waits for a ‘black swan’ event to slap myself out of this zombie mode and have fire in my belly again.

It’s REALLY HARD for me to accept boredom. I feel like I constantly need stimulation.

I don’t feel as alive or sharp as I used to be.. I ‘run away from reality’ quite a bit. I’m on my phone a lot every day, watching a ton of YouTube and social media. I also don’t feel as ‘motivated’ as I used to be. My goals were always really big for myself.. and after I achieved a bit of success part of me feels a bit contempt and I just continue on auto pilot… the craziest part is that it doesn’t ’hurt’ me even emotionally. I feel fking numbs to it.

Anyways, I want to start a 30 day ‘dopamine detox’ challenge.

Here is what I am committing to:

1. Waking up at 6 am on workdays.
2. Not using my phone until 12 pm everyday (excluding weekends)
3. No Social Media & YT until 5pm
4. No news
5. No reels/shorts
6. Total allowed time on social media & YT 1 hour (combined)
7. No screens 30 mins before bed (Book/connect with GF instead)

Occasionally I gonna write updates on my progress as it helps me feel more alive by being a ‘producer’ as opposed to just a spectator.

Let’s go