Well, I am now officially in the homestretch as I see it. Only 8 days left.
While I don't have day to day details, I know that over the last 4 days, I have done VERY well. No little checks here and there, nada. It does help when I am active on the weekend, but considering I was home all day sick monday, and didn't check the PC or TV all day, that’s a pretty good test. Granted, it wasn't a productive day by any means, I still held to my rules.
Friday was a normal work day, Saturday we went riding and then I came home to recover from that ride. Sunday, I cooked a bit, relaxed from previous day of riding/injuries, and then went to my brothers for the Superbowl. I had already outlined that I could watch the Superbowl in my rules of this challenge, so I relaxed, enjoyed time with my brother and his friends, and in general had a good time. Was sick in the evening, and home all day Monday….and while sometimes I would say it is hard to avoid TV when home sick, I felt bad enough I pretty much was laid out and dozing or reading all day. Not much else I could manage.
Not missing TV, not missing shows, not missing the news, not missing hours spent surfing for various this or that on the internet. There are times when it would be 'nice' for something….but all in all, I don't feel like I am truly missing out. Financial woes pasted across every headline on the news, tragic deaths and accidents, people hurting other people in some way, some actor getting drunk and doing something dumb, not missing that AT ALL. Yes, I cannot have an intelligent conversation about current world affairs at the moment, but how often do those come up? Usually its more of a gossip type conversation, with someone saying 'did you hear what so and so did', 'OMG, I did not, I need to check that out'…..and so on. Not really a high intelligence level conversation. So I am not missing much at the moment, sort of peaceful about it all really.
The result of this, I am putting a lot of thought into what limits I will set on my internet and TV time going forward. My head feels fairly clear at the moment, and that is pleasant. So I want to keep it that way as much as possible, but while still balancing a particular amount of free time. I have some fuzzy plans drawn up in my head, still have 8 days to hammer them out, but probably not going to spend a ton of energy on those. Feeling relaxed, and not going to force any issues going forward unless I know I am comfortable with them. I don't want to fight any 'rules', I want to be in balance with them, in agreement so that it is easy to follow the path I put forward. Example, if I have trouble coming up with positive reasons to read the news and such, then its obvious I need to seriously limit that behavior. If I understand why, then I can build limits around it that I can accept. If there are other pastimes that give me similar pleasure, but have more positive outcomes, I can direct time that way, and be happy with that compromise and in turn easily follow the path I have set forward.
Day 18-21 Results:
- Work Productivity - Med/High (a lot coming at me, hard to stay on path at times)
- Home Productivity - Med/Low (being sick and injured put a serious dent in production)
- Energy about challenge - High
- Physical Energy - low (again, sick and injured and recovering)
- Mental clarity - High
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