Sure you can interact with people even on social media, or go out at a coffee shop and interact with people there. My point is not to waste time and become unconscious about time flying by. Schedule the amount of time you need for relaxation and interaction and stay true to your program.
If you get on social media and forget to get off and hours later you discover that it has eaten your time for the day, that’s time wasted.
Make a parallel. Some people need to talk LIVE with others. They go for lunch, or gather around the water fountains in the building, and yet they don’t stay there for hours…. Others go for a coffee but don’t drink that coffee for hours unless they’re doing that in avoidance for doing the work they should do. But that’s another issue.
The problem with social media is that it catches you and the time flies by so quickly. You need to be very through time with the “friends time”. With or without social media.
Absolutely you need to be diepscerning carefully between your personal needs and respect them -think of this as boundaries issue from our APEP discussion – needs described by your metwprograms and values, and the “need for completion” of your daily goals. That without having to stay awake until midnight because you wanted time on superfluous activities. An organized day works better than a chaotic one. And it gives you in the evening a feeling of great accomplishment which include achievement and self fulfilling strategies.
Time and energy are your most precious commodities.
