Crypto is a hobby for you and shouldn't dominate every aspect of your life

Most of us got into crypto to participate in this tech and financial revolution and got really excited in the first days and weeks, researching the concepts, the jargons, the memes and the coins/tokens.

But as it happened, we watched this interest slowly convert into a time-consuming and addictive hobby, one that is not healthy and affects negatively other aspects of your life.

I'll try to give you some perspective on how to change that and better your relationship to crypto:

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1. Avoid being connected to crypto markets all the time: Most of us are not traders and don't intend to be. We are here for the long gains, but we keep checking charts, news and our favorite coins every hour or minute. Try to lock a time of the day you will be reading crypto news, engaging with the community, checking charts. Try to adapt to that and make it a habit, this way it becomes a natural part of your life and a fulfilling hobby. For example, I'm on a break from work, so I have more time at my disposal. So I've separated some time to be updating more on the crypto world and engage with the community, but I still have time to do errands, study, watch movies and have meaningful relationships, and crypto or any other thing doesn't come in the way.
2. Exercise and eat well: a healthy body is key to a heathy mind. In the beginning, it's not easy for a sedentary to become an active person. Do it slowly. It took years for you to be on your actual state, so have in mind that will take some time to adapt to a new routine.
3. Don't leave your job or disengage from it: keep your job and keep engaged to it. Being a work slave is exhausting and we all (most of us) want to retire early and actually enjoy life. But we can find ways to better our lives even within our current reality. It's a good feeling to find someone who is good at their job and they can help you, right? So try to be this person that restores faith in people to others and earn some dirty fiat along the way to fomo in SOL or LUNA.
4. Have a strategy: define what you want from crypto, huge long gains (HODL), short term gains or a mix of both. If you need to constantly check on a coin, make sure you have a reason for it. If you invested on a coin to forget about it and become rich in 10 years, it makes no sense to obsess about its chart everyday.
5. Try to find other ways to spend your time and things to look for: if you disengage from crypto completely, even for one week, you will feel naturally more detached from it and open to new interests. Try and find one that can be mentally challenging and improve your life and mood.

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Most of us are privileged, specially in perspective to extremely poor people around the world, now and in the past. To be born at this time in history is a privilege on itself, as being testimony to the rise of the Internet and Crypto is something of its own. Don't let this privilege turn into something negative and let crypto be a fulfilling hobby for you, not an obsession.