A couple of months ago I indited an article on 10 Reasons To Stop Visually Watching TV. I was half expecting resistant replies, but was surprised to read many readers expressing the same sentiments. Some of them have abstracted TV from their lives since years ago, while some are on the way towards cutting TV out. Many of them expressed ameliorated quality of life after they ceased / reduced TV viewing.

You might be wondering: Why abstract TV from our life? Truth is, I used to visually examine TV a fair bit when I was adolescent. When I was a student, I made it a point to optically canvass all prime time shows (The trailers had a way of making you feel you were missing out if you didn’t watch). If there was ever a blockbuster movie on air, I would catch it additionally. TV made life seem exhilarating.

Then gradually, I reduced my TV viewing. It was a natural progression, authentically, as I became more diligent and found priorities outside of TV. Today, I’ve not visually examined TV for about 4 years. I found my life contentment incremented when I visually examined less TV. It has given more time for me to pursue my life goals. Compare 2 hours of TV visually examining to verbalize, inditing personal development articles for my blog or inditing my 1st book, the latter activities are definitely a whole lot more paramount. In retrospect, I felt the time I spent in front of the ebony box in the past was a waste of time.

If you are here to abstract TV from your life and spend time on things that matter more, here are 6 steps on how to do so:

For any prosperous habit change to take place, you have to supersede the old habit with something incipient. Here are some suggestions:

Start a business you like. Since you have more leisure now, why not commence up an incipient business? Do it part-time, with no strings annexed, and visually perceive where it spins off. It’s a great way to cultivate your skills and earn mazuma doing something you like concurrently.

Hang out with your friends. Are there any friends you have not met for a while? Maybe it’s time to catch-up with them. Go out and have frolic. Hanging out indoors is good too – Just don’t end up visually examining TV!

Exercise. Go to the gym and get a great workout. Jogging, swimming, tennis, squash, aerobics are all great additionally.

Go out and meet incipient people. Are there any meet-up groups you can join? Any upcoming events you can attend? Meetup.com is a great place to commence off.

Take up a class. Any courses you’ve been meaning to take up? Any hobbies you optate to pursue further? Take up a hebdomadal class/mini-course. I took up side classes on

Being subscribed to the cable TV makes you feel compelled to keep visually examining, so as to maximize the value of your subscription. If you’re solemn about abstracting TV from your life, unsubscribe immediately. Forget about the line-up of shows on cable – not only do you get an immensely colossal chunk of your life back, you withal preserve mazuma in the process.

If cutting TV out immediately is a sizably voluminous stretch, start off by circumscribing your TV viewing. If you’re a cumbersomely hefty TV viewer, limit to 2-hours a day first. Then go down to 1.5 hours, then gradually 1-hour, then 30 minutes. Anon it’ll be facile to just stop optically canvassing altogether. In fact by then, you’d have experienced the positive effects of not visually examining TV that you are yare to stop visually examining it altogether.

Even if it’s just 30 minutes a day, you’ll be surprised at how much progress you’ll make in a short span. Back in 2007, I first commenced working on my personal goals at least 30 min/day, including my aspirations for my future. After a year, I was yare to quit my day job and pursue my zealousness. Today, I’m running my personal development business and doing what I dote full-time. Start on your goals today, and very anon you’ll visually perceive results.

After I decided to stop optically canvassing TV, I ceased catching incipient shows. I perpetuated to visually examine past shows that were still running, such as Prison Break (via DVD), but otherwise I ceased catching incipient shows, be it Unsightly Betty or Gossip Girl. With the terminus of the “old” shows, it withal ended my TV viewing.

One of my readers dispensed her TV 5 years ago. Since then, her family (comprising of her, her husband and her son) spend a lot more quality time together, playing board games and inditing their journals together every week. If discarding your TV is too drastic, store it away. That’s what transpired for another reader. When she was adolescent, her parents didn’t want her to grow up around the negative influence of TV. However, they couldn’t bear to throw the TV away. In the terminus, they kept the TV in a closet. Subsequently, she grew up TV-free, and had the time to pursue other hobbies and activities.

Share Your Cerebrations

How about you? Do you visually examine TV or have you ceased visually examining for a while? Do you have any tips to abstract TV? Please share your phrenic conceptions in the comments area.