This week focus on watching less
television
The average American watches almost 5 hours of TV
every day! Challenge yourself to watch as little as possible, see if you
can watch 1 hour or less per night. Let yourself watch you favorite
shows, but turn it off after that. It is amazing how the television has
an ability to suck you in. Without realizing it you have been watching
for hours. In many cases you start with watching a show you enjoy, then
it turns into what is the best thing on after that. At the end of the
night you: might be able to build a robot or remodel your house (even
though you don’t own any tools), you might know everything about all the
celebrities (that you will never meet), or you might now know every punch
line from you favorite movie (after watching it for the 100th
time.)
Television is entertainment and it is designed to
keep you attention. Everything we do in life either builds us up or tears
us down. Positive things build us up and negative things break us down.
If you are watching a show ask yourself is this building me up? If not
turn it off. Violence, drama, negativity, poor language. What are we
exposing to ourselves, our kids? In addition to what the TV does to your
mind, by sitting for that many hours per day and often eating while
watching it is no wonder what as a society we are becoming obese so
rapidly. If the average American cut that TV time is half and watched 2.5
hours and exercised the other half we would go from one of the most
overweight countries to one of the fittest.
You will be amazed at how much you can accomplish by
limiting TV hours. You will also start to enjoy life again, instead of
getting through it.
What can you do?
