About a week ago, I had the realization that I had fallen into some bad habits.
I realized I'd been scrolling on social media a little bit too much, online shopping a little bit too much, ordering food delivery a little bit too much, listening to podcasts a little bit too much, watching YouTube a little bit too much, falling asleep to the sound of tv a little bit too much.
And I came to the realization because I felt like shit.
My brain felt cloudy.
I felt anxious.
I felt kind of depressed.
I didn't feel like I was being as creative as I knew I could be.
I didn't feel like I was as focused as I knew I could be.
I just felt like shit.
And I really make an effort in my life to have a healthy balance with modern convenience and modern entertainment because I know how addictive these things are and I know how toxic they can be.
But every once in a while, I find myself in a place where I've lost my balance with these things.
And usually what I do is just fix it in a way that's pretty anticlimactic.
I mean, I just make the decision that I'm going to regain that balance, and then over the course of the following week or so, I shift back into a healthy mode.
But when I had this realization a week ago that I had fallen back into these bad habits, I had this desire to take drastic measures.
And I normally don't, as I just mentioned, normally I just kind of make the decision in my mind to go back to a healthy balance.
But I, for some reason, this time was different, and I wanted to take drastic measures, and I wanted to really try to do something that would make a serious impact on my life so that I don't fall into bad habits as often.
So I decided I was going to do a dopamine detox.
If you haven't heard of a dopamine detox, I'll explain it in a second.
But this concept of a dopamine detox became really, really trendy a few years ago.
And everyone was doing it.