Flora offers a green way to stay off your phone, clear to-do lists, and build life-changing habits. Flora blocks distracting apps in a pleasant way to help you focus on what’s important. Plant a seed in Flora, and as you progress towards your goals, the seed will grow into a healthy tree. If you leave Flora for social media or games while growing a tree, the tree dies! If you don’t, you’ll unlock new trees. Create a to-do item and set a reminder; tag your trees with a to-do item to track the progress. Grow trees regularly to earn a beautiful garden, with each tree a record of your hard work. Daily, weekly or monthly statistics help you improve your time-management skills. Challenge friends to plant trees together; if you successfully stay away from your phones together, each of you will win an additional tree. You can also chat and share your progress with each other. Flora’s opt-in Price and Care service lets you plant real trees if you kill or successfully grow a tree in the app.

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Dear Garima,

Your life seems to be going out of balance. While it is normal to want to connect with online friends and to have crushes at your age, excess time on only one area is like binging on your favourite food — it can make you sick. And you’re absolutely right — there will be consequences not just on academics, but also on the quality of your life if you become addicted. How will you feel if: Your academic results hit rock bottom? You lose your real friends because you chased virtual ones?

Retrain your brain! Take each important area of your life — your studies, a hobby, exercise, time with family and friends, time for social media and so on. Draw a ‘thali’ with ‘bowls’ on a paper. In each bowl place one area and how much time you will spend on it daily/during the week. Put it up on the wall and challenge yourself to stick to it. Give your cell phone to your mum at that time so you are not tempted to use it!

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Dear Akshaz, your lack of thinking and concentration to the point that you are scared and “clueless as to what to do” in life, points to a lack of motivation in your life. Motivation is the desire to achieve a beautiful goal for our lives. God gives us gifts at a physical, intellectual and spiritual level, which we have to use to become the good and beautiful persons He wants us to be. The guidance of parents, teachers, religious leaders and good friends helps us to discover our talents and natural gifs we should use for this purpose. Unfortunately, you do not give any information about your family, upbringing and other relationships in your life. Do not get discouraged or depressed; through personal prayer and meditation, with the help of those who love you and whom you love, you will slowly come to know yourself better and be able to choose the right path for your life.

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