Have Your Own Adventure
I love playing video games, that's why I forbid myself from playing it. If I start playing video games, I know I will sacrifice other parts of my life for it.
I enjoy video games is because of the satisfaction of level up and overcoming the challenges. I may have felt good about myself, but the success is hollow. The quality of my life hardly changes as I level up through video games.
As such, I forbid myself from playing video games. Instead, I have my own adventure. I can level up through education and exercise. Each physical achievement and life goals is a stage boss that I need to overcome. There could be side quest where I can do charity work or volunteer for a good cause. Best of all, I can have my own adventure by designing the levelling and stage boss.
Seeing life as an adventure, I will not be distracted through doom scrolling and engaging in time wasting activities.
Your life can be so much more. Create your own adventure and live it.