stop watching so much tv

Still doing pretty well but more through being busy than anything. I’m going to revisit this at the end of February when I will have more time on my hands and it will be through choice that I turn off the box.

I’m happy to say I’ve been doing really well with this.

Last week my boyfriend and I made a conscious decision to not have the TV on while we ate dinner so we could talk instead. It was lovely.

Last night I was home alone. While I ate my dinner I chose to watch a show I had recorded a while ago and hadn’t had a chance to watch. Then I turned off the TV and got through some things that I had been putting off. I went to bed early with a clean room, ironed shirts and organised paperwork. Must persist with this one.

My goal is not to stop watching TV altogether but to stop watching rubbish that just fills in time and sucks me in, thereby causing me to lose valuable time for important things. I watch crap, don’t do what I need to do, stay up later than I should then wake up late… and crabby (see my other goal – wake up earlier!).

Soooo…

I will look at the TV guide and decide what I really want to watch and only turn the TV on for those shows.

The hard bit will be when my housemates have the TV on. I must leave the room and go and do what I need to do!

Tonight: One show at 8:30pm and one at 9:00pm. There is another at 10:00pm I want to watch but I will record that and watch it another time.

I don’t watch TOO much TV, but I do find that I use TV to fill in silence in the house and I end up watching something inane and unfulfilling and I don’t do the things I need to. I’m not too much of a music listener and I get bored of silence. I will try to read more if I want to relax and I will try and find something interesting on the radio if I have an task to do.

Here I go…