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Well it has been hard, that is the basic status.  I have deleted all of my news feeds from my Google Homepage, so I am not tempted everytime I open my browser, I unsubscribed from most of my RSS feeds and a lot of different RSS-feeds-email.  I have also limited my daily morning routine to a couple of sites (Dilbert, TSN.ca, etc).

That said I am still visiting Fark and Slashdot.  I tried to cut them cold turkey, then once a day, but now I am visiting a couple of times a day.  This is something that I am going to have to try to curb in the coming weeks.

The problem is that I am not sure what to do with the time that I am freeing up.  I am not really busy at the day job, and most of my online stuff that has to get done can’t be done at work.  So I am left with some free time and nothing to do with it, and therefore end up going to Fark and visiting some of the articles linked there.  I should take it as a good sign that I am not rushed any more and the free time is a result of me cutting back on the intake of information. 

Starting after the Easter Weekend, I am going to go another step farther though.

1. I am going to make a list of go-to sites, but only visit them in the mornings or early afternoon. (coffee breaks)
2. I am only going to check my work email twice a day.  Once in the morning around 11am, this will give people time to reply to the emails that I sent the previous day. and again at 3pm, this will enable me to catch the majority of the emails sent in the run of a day.
3. Only check my personal email once every couple of days, and my business email once a day.  If someone needs to get ahold of me I have my cell.
4. Turn off my cell for a 24 hour period every week.  I still have voicemail so it shouldn’t be a big deal.  I will still have it on me so I am not worried about losing it.  I just think that everyone has to disappear every once in a while.  There is no need to be too connected.

I think that these few steps should save me another 30 to 60 minutes a day.  With this new time I am going to figure out how to learn French and maybe learn to play the harmonica.

I have recently been trying out the "Low Information Diet", we are bombarded with so much stuff it is hard to get almost anything done.

I have found that there are a lot of great things that come as a result of a low info diet.  I am getting a lot more done at work and at home, but I must admit that it is very hard.  News and information is addictive.

• Less wasted time - You spend a lot less time reading, watching and listening to CRAP.  Most of the "news" out there is crap.
• Most News is Wrong Anyway - The news today is so sensationaized that you never really know when something important.  Everytime there is going to be a bit of rain or snow there is a weather warning.  It is WINTER for **** sakes.
• If it is important, your friends/co-workers will tell you - You might be worried that you are not getting the latest news, but no fear, if something important is happening, or happened, others will be sure to let you know.  There is no point in paying attention to "breaking" news for hours, or get the 30 min summary that has been checked out the next day.
• Be Less Anxious - News is so sensational (see above) that everything is a disaster.  It is hard not to be affected by this.  Most of the time there is nothing that you can do about it, and the only affect is an emotional one.
• The News is Old - Have you ever noticed that depending on the season that the same stories are on the wires, told like they are breaking.  IE Razor blades in apple at Halloween

So give it a try and let me know how you like it.  You should be sure to start out easy, you may think that there is nothing to NOT paying attention, but if you spend hours of your day doing it, you will find it hard at first since all of the time that you used to spend watching CNN, you now have to do other things.

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