On October 5th, 2025 I was sitting on the couch with my wife and kids watching a “sermon” of sorts by Dallin H Oaks, an Apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

He suddenly broke into a story about the nature of his upbringing, sharing:

Oooffffff.

“Treat their homes as boardinghouses.”

Never heard it articulated that way, but yeah, that’s unfortunately so true these days!

He continued:

Sheesh!

I thought to myself:

“Am I leading a family of pure consumption… or production?”

Are my kids learning from me that all we do is:

• eat

• buy

• take

• listen

• watch

• critique

• consume

• commentate

OR am I proactively showing my family how to:

• act

• build

• serve

• share

• speak

• create

• produce

• contribute

• participate

This might seem totally unrelated, but in that moment, I whipped out my phone.

Swiped over two screens.

And immediately deleted Twitter completely off my phone.
(I know it’s called X. I don’t care. 😂)

I’d been borderline addicted to it for months.

Every morning. Every break. Every night.

Sadly, even sometimes when my kids were around.

Or my beautiful wife was sitting next to me on the couch.

Instead of engaging with them, I stared at a stupid screen reading stupid posts about stupid stuff that either make me mad about something going on somewhere that I have no control over..

…or are truly so pointless that I’d forget them instantly the very second I put the phone away.

Dallin H Oaks words made me wonder, how can I teach and lead my family to be producers in life, if I spend every extra second defaulting to meaningless consumption?

So yeah.

I deleted Twitter.

5 months ago.

Haven’t gone back.

Is my life immediately 10 bajillion times better?

Not exactly. But it is better!

And I don’t get mad about random crap I can’t control that people rant about online…

…because I don’t even hear about all the crazy drama happening in the world unless someone specifically tells me about it 🙂 

Also, I basically scored 2+ hours of my day back.

Been way more productive at work.

And honestly, the withdrawals only lasted a few days.

Maybe a week tops.

This thing that consumed an embarrassing amount of my life….

Literally means nothing to me now.

And all it took was deleting the stupid app off my phone before I could talk myself out of it.

Now on my freetime, I take the time I would’ve spent doomscrolling hunched over at my desk…

…and go on a walk outside.

…or go wrestle my kids.

…or just get crap done.

And it’s so simple it’s dumb.

But it’s also kinda life changing.

I just asked ChatGPT, and since I was averaging 2 hours a day on Twitter.

And its been 5 months.

I’ve saved 298 hours of my life.

That’s 12.4 days 😂

DAYS.

Which is… embarrassing.

And amazing.

SO… if this has spoken to you.

And you feel the unavoidable tug inside you to delete that app that’s been stealing away your precious time from life and loved ones…

Delete it now. 🙂

I dare you!

Then come hit reply and tell me which app you deleted. I’d genuinely love to hear your story!

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- Kody

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