spend less time online

I’m not sure how much of a problem this is now. To the extent that it is, it’s more of a procrastination/organization problem. I have to take care of that first.

I want to spend less time on the computer, and go outside more or play with my pets.

I spend far to much time on the computer and not enough time actually living my life. I am totally addicted to facebook, twitter, and now, 43 things. I need to get off the computer!!

This may be kinda hard while i’m taking online college classes! lol!

Last night I didn’t bring my computer home from work.
Despite working 2 hours late, I felt like I had so much more free time and enjoyed the evening quite a lot. After working late I came home and spent an hour cleaning up the chaos in the house while listening to a podcast. I didn’t finish (didn’t even touch the bathroom) but an hour is plenty and now most rooms don’t stress me out. Then I made myself a healthy dinner. Then I read until bedtime. I’m currently reading Buddha by Karen Armstrong and it has me wrapped up! I ended up journaling late into the night as I explored how my own philosophy of life, death, religion, evolution and peace. It was quite a lovely evening.

It’s nice taking a day off from the internet once in awhile, though this one was prompted by the migraine to end all migraines. After it broke, I decided to just roll with it and left the laptop off. I should really do this once in awhile when I’m NOT feeling under the weather, and you know, go out and DO SOMETHING. Right.

It was sort of nice being incommunicado (I also turned off my cell phone for the daY), though my inbox and Google Reader was out of control when I finally got to it today. Yikes.

I’ve been failing on this one….I spend WAY too much checking my email. Really, there’s no reason to check it 2-3 times per afternoon, because NORMAL people send emails with at least a day’s notice. And there’s usually not much of a difference if you check it any more than 2-3 times per day. That’s going to be my goal now.

Tools:
Gmail’s email addict
willpower
hope that this will help me

It’s time to realise that I like spending time online. And it’s hardly a shooting offence. So I’m giving up on this goal.

Whoa…this is much harder than I thought it was going to be. I find that in my unemployed life on summer break from school, I spend a whole lot of time online doing absolutely nothing. I have 45 minutes left of my two hours a day goal, so I thought I’d post a little entry about day one. Luckily, I was volunteering for AIDS Walk SF for the first few hours of the day to kill some time. I got to count envelopes, make labels, and stamp cards for about three hours, but I did get a free lunch out of it. I’ll actually be going back tomorrow, as it helps me get out of the house and do something productive with my time.

After I returned home, I decided to finish up laundry, watch movies, and read a book. I was worried that I might have to extend that two hour limit I set for myself, but I think I can keep trying this out to see how it works. Granted, I’m sure there will be days that I fall off the wagon.

This is the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning. I have 1,000 other things I could be doing during the day. Not just cleaning and chores, but things I enjoy like crafts and experimental cooking; yet, I still find myself wasting away hours on the internet. It’s not like I’m actually reading anything interesting, or doing research on how to make anything. I’m just checking my e-mail, social networking sites, scrabble, and hitting refresh most of the time. I need to pry myself away from this and get my life back. I’m going to start with baby steps and limit myself to a total of two hours a day and see if that works. Today is day one. I have been on for about 20 minutes already, doing exactly the above.

Goodbye refresh! Hello world!