We all would like our gadgets to help reach our goals and enhance our output. Nevertheless, in truth, we get flustered all the time due to a range of notifications and news from social platforms like Instagram and Telegram channels. By this point, advanced technologies do a lot of harm, not help - we end up losing our precious time and having top anxiety levels.

Gilfanov Rustam, the Co-founder of a global IT company and financier, discusses how to make the first moves in virtual detoxing, turning work to a more effective one and bring harmony to life.

"I use my smartphone for about 5 hours a day," says Rustam Gilfanov. "This is less than the world's average figure 6 hours and 42 minutes," He points out that most of the time is spent on his job tasks and self-study. As for time devoted to the interaction with family and friends, and to social networks, takes as little as one hour."

Rustam Gilfanov thinks that a relaxed attitude towards your time spent on the cell phone becomes the reason for a decline in performance and growth in anxiety, on top of problems with socialization and communication in authentic life.

1. Get rid of useless channels and applications

Figure out all the inadequate apps you use less often than once a week and get rid of them. Place the rest of the applications into folders to access them easily when you want. Delist from groups and channels in social networks that you are inclined to ignore.

2. Mute most of your notifications

Allow only sound alerts that are vital for your work and remove all the rest. Like this, you will make sure they will not distract you through the day particularly when you want to stay focused.

3. Don't use your cellphone before going to bed

Put your device somewhere out of reach at night and set the alarm on a watch.

4. Spend an hour a day without your device as a routine

Change the mode to offline on your phone, put it away in another room, and dedicate this time to yourself. Spend time with your family members, cook something delicious, or pick a book. Learn to appreciate no gadget time. If you can do it, then practice virtual detox for a full day on your break.

5. Find people with the same trend among your contacts and colleagues.

Support each other; discuss your achievements, failures, or problems that you have.

Rustam Gilfanov stresses that, same as any fixed convention, obsession with technology with its ready-to-use solutions is not a simple thing to give up. Gilfanov suggests introducing restrictions in succession. Therefore, when you switch to a better-adjusted way of life and learn to depend on your phone less, it is correct to do it gradually. Soon, you will figure out that you are not the one to blame your gadgets for your insomnia, or missed closing dates.

The international outsourcing corporation that Rustam Gilfanov opened in Kyiv in 2006, with his partners, is now the prime financial gaming, and marketing software developer.

Some years ago, Gilfanov decided to focus on global investing in impressive IT projects in the spheres of financial technologies, gaming, as well as streaming. That is why he abandoned his work in the IT Company. Furthermore, Rustam Gilfanov considers the development of charity projects on the territory of Ukraine a high priority. "Lucky Books" and "Libraries of the Future" are the largest among them.

Brief Biography

Investor Rustam Gilfanov was born on January 6, 1983, in the Basim village of (Perm Region). His family comprised three persons: his father, a military man, and mother, a teacher and him. Now Rustam is happily married and he has a daughter.

Currently, Rustam Gilfanov is a co-founder of the IT Company, an IT business owner, and an international stakeholder.

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