Practical exercise
Run a thirty account social media mute
You will quietly mute thirty accounts on Instagram or TikTok this Sunday. The goal is to lower the comparison input to your brain by half, without announcing anything publicly. By Wednesday next week, your phone will feel different.
30 min·starter
Now try it
Run a thirty account social media mute
Stretch
After three months, repeat the muting exercise. Some muted accounts will stay muted; some will quietly come back; some you will discover were just temporarily heavy in your life and are fine now. The list is alive.
Goes into your portfolio
A screenshot of your Instagram daily time limit setting, plus a Google Doc with the seven evening one-line check-ins after the mute. The doc lives in your private mental health folder.