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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.