Are you addicted to or obsessed with readcash?

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1 year ago

About three days ago, I checked my profile page and saw that I am already 6 months old on read.cash. It felt like I joined yesterday.

I remember when I was still new on readcash(one to two months old) I used to engage alot, visit people's articles, drop good comments and upvote them. However as time went by and I had to resume school, the pressure was so overwhelming that I had to ditch readcash for while. The classes, hospital assignments, projects, practicals, group work and some personal issues. All these made my engagement and posting levels drop significantly. I would post once in a week and sometimes in two weeks. I hadn't much people visiting my articles since I don't visit articles often and readcash is like that. If you want engagements on hours, you'll have to engage on other's, a very interactive platform it is!

So after the University went on strike about two months ago, I decided to set things straight. I needed to settle my school workload since the strike presented the opportunity and I had intentions to optimise my interactions on this platform to make up for all the days I have lost, so I planned it like this:


My day starts by 1am and ends by 8 or 9pm(assuming all things go according to plan). Since there are 24 hours in a day, divide my readcash interaction time into bits of 4 hours. I go to bed at 8:30pm after visiting articles from four hours ago. I sleep for five hours a day so when I wake up at 1am(my new day!), I visit articles from five hours ago. I then take time to pray, prepare my article for today and study. I study till 4am after which the morning prayer and then I click on the notification icon then visit articles from 4 hours ago. I then log out and go do other things outside readcash then at 8am I log in to visit articles from 4 hours ago, then I log out to do other things until it is 12pm then I post my article for the day after replying to comments on my last article then after this, I visit articles from four hours ago. At 4pm I do the same thing (visit articles from four hours ago) and at 8:00pm after Isha prayer I visit articles from 4 hours ago. Although sometimes due to circumstances, I leave it until it is 12:30am after waking up from sleep... and so it continues..

I had to employ this strategy because I used to become overwhelmed when I see about 40 unvisited articles in my notif and I end up not visiting even one because of how overwhelming it is. I need readcash right now and I need to study too and do other things outside readcash. I admit there was a time I was obsessed with readcash making me abandon other things that needed attending to but now thankfully everything has been sorted out.

The above times I scheduled for my online gig kinda made me overconfident though so I joined Hive.blog and Blurt but it didn't work out. After spending money on both hive and blurt power I figured I will have to sacrifice and just do readcash and be content while focusing on other things regarding study and other aspects of personal development aside finances. @Princessbusayo guided me on how to start blurt and she was so kind to even give me some blurt power after I signed up, I knew instantly that it would just go to waste and I didn't know how to reply her so hanty Princess, this is the reason πŸ˜”.

Alot of us here on readcash are employees, students and housewives. All these come with serious responsibility and expectations. Time management is key to everything and never forget to create that balance in your life that should always be there. When things seem to be toppling, take your time to assess the situation so you wouldn't leave anything behind. For those who would love to engage more on readcash but are finding it difficult due to other responsibilities, my strategy might work for you or you can device yours yourself.

Thanks for reading,

Yours Layly,

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1 year ago

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You manage you're time well. I like your story it gives me an item how to manage my time too.

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1 year ago

You have managed your time in a very beautiful way. There are many other things outside of the online world without which life is not possible, but we have to spend a lot of time online. We have to maintain a certain time for that & in order to spend time online, we should not lose any of our real life activities. One should not be addicted to anything in any way.

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1 year ago

You're right Sajida. Even seemingly good things can be toxic. Thanks you very much.

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1 year ago

Well said, my friend. Time management is important and sometimes it can be difficult to navigate between our every day lives and maintaining a presence online. I love to write, a lot of my work is online, and I have been able to devote a lot of time these past few weeks because my kids were on vacation. Even so, there were days when I was overwhelmed. But I LOVE readcash, so to answer your question? Yep, I'm addicted! lol! I check in every now and then. I also always enjoy our interaction, and so, I appreciate your perspective. All the best on your medical journey and I look forward to hearing from you whenever you are online.

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1 year ago

One will always find ways to make time for what they enjoy. Tbh I only started enjoying readcash not long ago. This has helped in shifting my perspective and making it much easier for me. Thanks Trifecta and I wish you success in your endeavours too😊😊

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1 year ago

My time management is worse, I've been a user for 7 months and I think the past few weeks is one of the times I've been consistent. It feels like I need more than 24 hours in a day, I'm so busy these days that I only have time to write articles at night even though I manage to read articles despite all I have going on. I hope I get better in managing my time

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1 year ago

It's really that important. Just get to understand what works for you best without pushing your limits.

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1 year ago

Giving you the blurt power doesn't mean it's a waste. I understand we have many things offline aside this platform and others. You can at least try even if it is once in a week to come around. It wasn't easy for me then but I just had to apply time management which helped me balance both work and school together. Now, I am as free as a bird except if I'm just too tired.

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1 year ago

Thanks Princess. I will try my best even if it's once a week, I sure will come around. Thanks!!

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1 year ago

I got the flu last week and was offline for several days and then I realized that I was not addicted to anything online really. I find that I need to use some energy to get back into the blogging after more than a week of absence!

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1 year ago

Yeah even addictions can be hindered by circumstances. Do you feel much better now Plint?

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1 year ago

Much better, Thanks!

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1 year ago

The same thing happened to me in the sense that having managed to organized my read.cash schedule in a way that worked, I delved into hive, at the end of the day, both are suffering

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1 year ago

Hehehe I gave up on hive a long time ago. It is a cool site but I figured I don't really have the time Maybe when things are more settled. Just focus on one for the mean time

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1 year ago

If you asked me this question around the time I joined readcash, I would have said yes because I was always here interacting on articles and I seem to spend a major part of my day here, but everything changed when I finally achieved my goal; buying a new phone. These days I drag myself to come online and interact πŸ˜†

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1 year ago

πŸ˜…πŸ˜…πŸ˜…πŸ˜… So as you have buy new phone nau, you are not serious again abi? At least you achieved what it is you wanted to achieve

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1 year ago

Exactly o, my goals back then helped me to be serious and focused. Maybe I will just come up with another goal sha

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1 year ago

Of course I'm addicted. I have to be lol! This has become my second source of income which I am grateful for.

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1 year ago

Yeah We all are grateful for readcash

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1 year ago

Being a hustling student is not an easy thing to do, you gotta learn how to balance your time wisely and make every tick of the clock counts. However, no matter how much we tried, we can't really excel in everything we do, specially if we are doing it at the same time.

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1 year ago

We're humans. We just have to set our priorities right and do the things that matter to us the most.

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1 year ago

Balancing everything is quite difficult to be honest. School is on strike now that's why I seem to have a lot of time on my hands. But, why is your sleep time 8:30pm–1am? Plus when do you exercise to sleep 5hours daily? I will have to create a new routine when school resumes so as to balance everything

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1 year ago

Indeed it is hence it's best to maximise the opportunity. I had a change of schedule when ramadan kicked in. After breaking the fast I exercise then I bath, pray and sleep.

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1 year ago

For me, this is the family where I belong.

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1 year ago

I believe I have family here too

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1 year ago

This platform is one of my most visited everyday,I spend almost 5 hours or more,with writing and reading,but I didn't read a lot today because of holiday,I have so many things to do.I think I need to work on other strategy to manage my time,just like you did .

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1 year ago

That will definitely go a long way. It's all about balance so that other things do not get affected.

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1 year ago

Im addicted to this platform..can't last the day without visiting this one

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1 year ago

Same here. Unless under cumpulsion.

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1 year ago

When I was free and was on holiday at home I was addicted to read cash but now my student life is again started and I don't have much time to spend here and that's why read cash is no more my addiction. Btw congrats for completing 6 months here. you are really doing great here. keep it up.

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1 year ago

Yeah. Even addictions change when circumstances are not favourable. Thanks Niazi.

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1 year ago

Yeah, that’s true.

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1 year ago