not watch so much TV

otherwise i couldn’t have done it.

I was finding myself putting on the TV all the time. Even if I wasn’t watching it. It was actually very distracting and I was getting little done (around the house and on my own self-improvement) Now I watch very little TV (Red Sox games of course) I now listen to music more and even sometimes enjoy the ‘sounds of silence’ which I’m doing now :-)

I didn’t stop watching TV because I have incredible will power. Let’s face it, it’s pretty darn hard to avoid turning on the TV in the room when it’s staring at you with its puppy eyes.

But due to a planned move I took advantage of the situation and did not start cable service at the new house. This was six months ago, and I haven’t watched any live TV since.

It was comparatively easy: I relied on my procrastinating instincts to just not calling the cable company. And as we all experienced, procrastination is always at your service.

What I’ve found is that we now have more family time, where we are paying attentions to each other rather than to the boobtube, that we actually have dinner conversations, and time to read books.

And with so many good TV series going to DVD soon after the season is over, you don’t have to give up your favorite series on TV. You can just go rent out the series and watch its entirety, if you can wait six months.

As long as I procrastinate on re-starting cable, I’m in safe territory.

I have been watching so much less TV! I didn’t realize how much I had been watching before, but now when I go over to other people’s houses and they are watching TV I am so bored. I feel so much more productive and fulfilled when I am not watching so much TV. Worth doing :-)

WELL I ONLY WATCH 1 HOUR OF TV A DAY!! THAT’S 7 HOURS A WEEK! SOMETIMES IT’S HARD TO PULL MY SELF AWAY SO I WAIT UNTILL THE NEXT STOP SET OF COMMERCIALS AND DRAG MY SELF INTO ANOTHER ONE OF MY PASSIONS. AND LATELY THAT HAS BEEN PAINTING AND WRITING!!!
I HAVE SO MUCH MORE TIME! AND ENERGY… NOT AS BOARD EITHER!!!

learning how not to sit infront of the tv after work!
i watch 1 show and that is charmed reruns or new shows it doesn’t matter… after that i go up into my room and right in my book! i try to avoid tv on the weekends it will just take all my time… so i’m almost finished this!!!
almost… tv still steals me tho!!!

okay i work long hours and i when i get home i just want to lay there and i end up watching the tv untill i go to bed! so this week i am going to try to paint instead!

When i moved into my current house we didnt have a tv, and we just decided to not get one for a while.. then we just ended up not getting one at all. took a couple of weeks to get used to it but now all i watch is dvds on my laptop when i want to watch something, and it’s great! so much time wasted watching tv! the only thing i miss is the news… i didnt know the pope was dead for a week!

our cable got cut off last night. since we never really hooked it up, I suppose this was inevitable… but it still really sucks. On the other hand, I watch WAY too much, so this is probably a good thing. For the next few weeks I may be at a complete loss as to what to do with myself though… maybe I will work on my other goals….