Slay with the content you consume.

Scrolling through phones, watching television, or reading a book, in all these times we are filling our heads with information. Most of the time we are consuming content that is available out there. But is that content bringing any value to your life? Is it helping you to improve your existing skill? I know it might be sounding boring to some of you, you might be thinking, what is she talking about? Who thinks of learning something while watching a movie? But the fact is you can learn from every content you consume in your day-to-day life.

Be it YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Netflix, or any other platform. Just by keeping few points in mind, you will end up feeling good and not guilty after watching movies on Netflix.

If you want to thrive in times like today, you really need to be a good learner. We all like to watch Amazon Prime, Netflix, and of course Instagram, our best friend today! We spend so much time on these platforms then why not spend it in a way that could lead you somewhere. I guess there is no harm, in fact, it is the most amazing way in which you can consume content that will help you grow.

If you are spending too much time on your phone and feeling guilty about it, let me tell you some tips which will help you. I personally do all of these and I have got amazing results.

If you want to know how to do it, come on in.

#1 Consume content that is new for you.

Let us talk about the very common mistake we do and end up getting nothing out of it. I will tell you how exactly I learned about this mistake.

A few months back I saw a video from one of the greatest motivational speakers Sandeep Maheshwari. This man has brought amazing changes to my life. I will talk about this some other time, for now, let’s stick to the topic. So, in that video he told that each time you see something, be it a cartoon, movie, or anything, ask yourself a question “What did I learn from this?”. After listening to this video, one weekend I thought of watching a movie.

The movie was “Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani“, the most amazing movie to feel good about ourselves, our lives, our friends and a lot more. I watched the movie happily and after that, I asked myself “What did I learn from this”? I came up with multiple answers and became happy.

Again after few months I suddenly felt like watching that same movie. Most of you could relate here, this movie was released almost 9 years back and we still love it. The concept, the vibe are new every time you watch it. So again I watched it and asked myself the same question, I ended up having the exact same points I had before, now I was guilty of spending two and half hours on something I knew before. That’s when I realized that if I had explored another movie instead of the same, I would have had new things learned on my list.

I know some movies are worth watching again, but let’s face it watching?Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani?or any other movie 50th time is not teaching you something. I know that movie has a lot of learning to take away but repeating the same movie is providing the same value you had the first time you watched it.

So, consume content that is new for you.

#2 Watch content that helps you grow

When you watch content, make sure it is providing you value in such a manner that you are growing. When you consume negative content, it loads in your brain and stays with you. Any content we see remains with us, so keep something that is making you happy rather than negative. For example, you read a piece of bad news while scrolling through Instagram. You read the full article about what exactly happened and how it happened, you are now aware of it. But do not dig it deeper, do not go to google searching for similar articles. It will affect you in a negative manner and make you feel bad for a longer duration of time.

#3 Consume content that adds value to your life somehow

If you are watching a video on Instagram and it is making you smile, laugh, or encouraging you to do something good with yourself, it is adding value to your life. Do not watch content that is not making any changes in the person you are and how you will do this? Ask yourself “What did you learn from this?” and you will get your answer.

That’s it for today, I hope this helps you somehow.

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