The first step (and I'm serious) would be:
- turn off the computer,
- skip the TV altogether and
- lose your phone.
There isn't anything there anyway. You'll only find distraction there. And that's not even really a thing—well . . . yes, distraction is a noun, so I guess that makes it a thing, but I digress.
Back to the "ditching your time-wasters" thing.
Arianna Huffington tweeted this picture of Warren Buffet that she took while visiting him in his office one day.
She added the caption:
Visiting Warren Buffett in his office. No Blackberry, iPhone or laptop…just a regular non-flat screen TV on CNBC
Is he still informed? Yes. Absolutely. But not in the way we fool ourselves into thinking we are informed. We are not being informed. We are being stalled.
Grab yourself a book (or even a kindle) from now on. You are no longer the technology guy (or gal). You are now the reader.
At this point you will have already drastically changed your life. (Though I know you are looking for something more. Hold tight. It's coming.)
Your world view will change after about two to three weeks of this and you'll realize that the things you thought you needed, well . . . you didn't.
Your personality will shift as well. Will you start reading over 500 pages a day like Buffet? Who can say. But you will change (and for the better), and you will begin to think more.
Don't believe me?
Watch this clip.
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