The 4 Daily Habits that Have Slashed My Screen Time by Over 50%

Reduce eye strain, improve sleep, and prevent headaches

Neeramitra Reddy
Publishous
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4 min readOct 1, 2021

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Until my first severe migraine, being glued to screens, be it gaming, binge-watching, texting, and social media scrolling, had been all fine and dandy.

Through some strict measures, I slashed my screen time, but as the headaches receded; I let it creep back up. And the migraine scampered back stronger.

This soon turned into a game of fetch — every time I threw my screen time control measures out the window, my migraine would come running back.

Having realized my screentime reduction would have to be a lifestyle change and not a temporary fix, I discarded stringent measures such as screen blockers and switched to building habits.

I’m happy to say it’s been months since I last had a nasty headache — all thanks to 4 habits that slashed my daily screentime from 12–14 hours to around 7.

They can help you do the same as well.

Kill a Lion’s Share of Your Watch Time

When this idea first struck me, I was baffled at how I didn’t think of such an obvious thing earlier.

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Neeramitra Reddy
Publishous

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