stop spending so much time on the computer

And here I am again, having to spend less time reading things on the net. Things I like but distract me from the important things. I have 2 months to do a lot of projects and exams while I’m doing my work in the factory.
I’ve just made a list with goals and deadlines, all about college. I’ll try to do some small activities as read some papers and a book’s chapter on the bus to work or in the free hours sometimes I have in the end of afternoon (as I’m having now). It will make me spend less time with somethings in my weekend study moments.
I have acumulated so many things. Now I have to break the activities in small pieces and do everything, because it’s a fact: I won’t have entire free days anymore until vacation.

As in, stop spending so much time aimlessly surfing the web until it’s four in the morning. Writing – ok. Listening to music – ok. Reading cracked and listverse and 43 things – ok. Clicking on all the links of the articles on msn when I have to wake up in two hours – not ok. Get out and do stuff! Go write outside in a notebook! Come on, Alexandra!

It’s a fact: I can’t do that! At home, I always have something to distract me, including the computer and the bed. Sometimes I try to do some paper or some program and always finish reading unrelated stuff. Most of my studies are being at libraries or at my boyfriend’s house (but just if he is using his computer).

I would like to hear helpful hints that actually worked for others.
Thank you.

I’m seeing my entry in this goal and it was write about 4 months ago. Well, I confess that I have to lead with this yet but I’m better now.
To cut the problem by its root (as we say here), I won’t check my things when I wake up anymore, unless I’m wanting a urgent message (and it doesn’t happen often). Check e-mails, scraps and 43things once a day, by night, for 30 minutes, is enough by now as I’m ok with all my college projects and the work things can be read only there.

The big advance in the last times was about the instant mensager. I think I used it about twice in the last month and I didn’t percept it until some friends commented it last weekend. “Don’t you have msn anymore?” The few times I was online was in my boyfriend’s home and always with his login, that was already there and I didn’t get the work to log off and login with my own password. And it was always to chat about the saturday night: it’s much easier to put everybody together in a chat room to decide this kind of stuff.

I’m used to check my web things in the morning, before go to classes. And the problem was that I was arriving late in the classes for it. Instead of only check my messages, I spent time checking all that silly stuff that I must only see in the weekends. Now, in my vacation, I’ll try to change the habit. It’s better spend time achieving my goals (yeah, I want a new list to check in some days :D) and having great free moments than right doing unnecessary things.

Ok spending less time o nthe computer is difficult.It’s really addictive plus with the homework I do on the computer or have to look for information on the internet doesn’t help.
I’ll try and set up a daily timetable so I don’t spend ages o nthe comp.

Spending so much time on line I feel I am MOSTLY searching for things that are missing in my life.

I am looking for people who feel the same as me – sharing problems (mostly), hopes, dreams and jokes. But – hours fly by and my life carries on around me with missed oppourtunities of getting uni work done (which if it was done, means I can actually GO OUT with my housemates, GO OUT to the gallery/museum, make REAL friends and build my REAL life, face the REAL world). Don’t get me wrong – this is a personal opinion. I come to the internet when I don’t want to face things that need to be done and I don’t want it to be that way. I am a lonely person. I don’t have a lot of confidence and I’m sure as hell spending endless time on line is not going to help me conquer shyness when I meet people – I’m not shy online!

I don’t want a mobile phone.

I don’t want the internet at home.

I want to reconnect with my world again. I dont want technology that seems to have made me withdraw more and more into myself and not actually speaking to people. I text when I am too shy to talk – nearly all the time…... I actually want the challanges of real conversation and emotions and problems.

You know?..... I could go on but I think I’ve made my point! :)
So what do I do? Throw my mobile away? I wish I’d never got one ever. But how will I connect with people? Phone boxes?

As for the i’net I can just leave my wireless receiver in uni for now – starting tomorrow. It’s a start I guess.

Yeah – i shop too online, research etc. but really what bugs me concerns the above.

ciao for now baby ;)

I dont really want to give up time on the computer. I just wish it wasnt such a problem that affects my life in getting other things done. I can spend hours and hours on here losing track of the day. Its like I really dont care about anything else. Now I have a NEW obsession “43 things”

doesn’t help.