Internet fasting while stuck in a box

I’ve decided that from today I’ll be doing a lite digital fast for at least 2 weeks in order to overcome certain addictions.

It’s not going to be a total fast. The idea is to cut out the things that I don’t find particularly productive or particularly enjoyable.

Those include (in order of severity):

• YouTube videos
• Really stupid smartphone games
• Responding to messages to distract myself from other things
• TV shows
• Checking the news randomly
• Checking crypto
• Forcing myself to engage at Hive because I feel that I should.

I will allow myself 30 minutes in the morning, another 30 minutes in the afternoon if I had a productive morning, and then free reign after 8 pm if I had a productive afternoon. Rather lenient, i’d say, but during the fasting hours I’m going to follow it 100%. This should give me an extra 2-5 hours a day that’s not spent multitasking with YouTube which essentially destroys my ability to focus on anything.

Hive isn’t really the problem, it’s using it as a distraction without putting my heart into it. I’ll probably spend a lot of my non-fasting hours at hive.

I’ll allow for 10 minutes on messaging apps in the morning just to reply to people, and I’ll open them up from 8 PM when I feel like it IF (and only if) I had a productive day, otherwise I get 10 minutes to reply to people.

All other computer and internet activity will be work related.

I will check news every 2-3 days if I feel balanced enough to not let it distract me from my focus.

That means I’m going to spend a whole lot of time doing the following

• stretching
• looking for students
• teaching
• writing my novel
• practicing guitar
• exercising
• cooking
• recording (possibly)
• meditating
• studying japanese
• reading
• catching up with friends and hive after 8 pm

I just deleted all my stupid game apps in preparation.

This is going to be awesome!