A DIGITAL MINIMALIST

Data subscription is becoming expensive around here. This has made me limit my screen time to a very good extent. And even though my screen time is very high, it's also very productive and limiting. It feels like I'm losing money, and when I'm not losing money I feel like I'm going insane not being able to do my usual routine. Okay maybe insane isn't the word as it's sounding as though I'm an addict. I think I will say not being able to do my routine as I like is somewhat painful. For example I have had to stop my canva premium subscription making me reduce the time I spend designing and now focusing on the conventional Corel Draw which means I have to do my designs from scratch, and I can only do three designs daily unlike how I normally do five or six daily.

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The reason I reduced my designs is because of the cost of subscribing from my personal cash, plus the high cost of data canva consumed alongside the need to reduce screen time. Less designs means less screen time because I can only monitor two or three different posts daily. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that I normally do advert designs which are quite a lot and monitoring them takes time. However, since I decided to start this minimalist thing, I guess I will have to go for adverts that I can conveniently handle. Another part I still deal with is my hive account. I could spend the entire day on hive, but now I'm having to spend no more than 2 hours daily in a bid to reduce my screen time.

The last thing I have had to reduce is my podcasts. Although I still subscribe to Spotify, I try as much as possible to reduce the amount of data I use, making me reduce the number of podcasts and books I read. Then my guilty pleasure which happens to be pocket FM. I love listening to these interesting telenovelas whether I'm busy or not, but for my data sake I have had to only download the episodes at work with the company WiFi. This means the only thing I do at home is listen to either my favorite podcasts (a little) or my telenovelas. In fact I now listen to only one telenovela instead of four.

THIS IS MY RESPONSE TO DIGITAL LIFESTYLE'S PROMPT FOR WEEK 034