No more social media, news binging, and YouTube. My journal

Ok. I spent almost an hour reading articles about health and then spent 40 minutes browsing Reddit. That was a complete waste of fucking time. I realized I'm having trouble shaking the habit of looking at stuff online instead of working.

From this day forward this changes!

I say, from now on, I'll ensure that I don't look at or read ANYTHING on the internet unrelated to either PDF documents of literature or my schoolwork. The only exception to this rule is NoFap.com for no more than a few minutes a day.

HERE WE GO!!!!

Day 0!

 

Just now resisted an urge of curiosity to look at Google images. Someone mentioned that Pushkin used to do little doodles in his works. I was about to look at those doodles, but then I decided not to!

Good for me!

 

Day 1 done!

 

I had a 2 day-long news binge yesterday and today after Hamas's terrorist attack on Israel.

I will get back on track now.

Day 0

 

I appreciate that

 

Unfortunately, I spent 15 minutes today watching a YouTube video a friend told me about.

Guess I'm back to day 0

 

I looked at the internet for a few minutes this morning, so that sets me back to day 0 again, but I've otherwise had a really productive day today.

 

Had a very productive day today.

 

Had a good day yesterday.
Day 1

 

I had a very productive day all day today except for the last few hours. I discovered an American PAC called J-Street and spent almost an hour reading everything on their website.

I guess that brings me back to day 0.

Let me update the list of things I'm allowed to do on the internet.

• Schoolwork
• Classical literature
• NoFap (for a few minutes/day only)
• Sheet music and audio of songs that I will play on violin/guitar.
• Look for motivational speeches online (no more than 3 videos per day, even if I don't finish watching them)

Here's a list of things I explicitly FORBID myself from doing.

• Reading the news (except on Sundays between 4 and 4:30 pm, in order to know about current events)
• Looking at social media
• Watching porn (obviously)
• Watching YouTube (except for motivational speeches)
• Playing with ChatGPT (except if absolutely necessary for a productive practical purpose.)
• Playing videogames
• Listening to music/Spotify unless I'm in the gym or it's music I'm actually gonna play on violin/guitar.

I WILL NEVER AGAIN BREAK THESE RULES WHILE I'M IN COLLEGE!!!!!!

AS MY FIRST GOAL, I COMMIT TO STRICTLY AND SCRUPULOUSLY UPHOLDING THESE RULES FROM NOW UNTIL DECEMBER 1!!!!!!!!

 

I'm feeling sick today, so I'll make myself an exception and let myself read Wikipedia in bed.

 

Day 3, I guess

 

Day 0 again

I've got to learn the success habits that will keep me off the internet in the next 10 days. Hopefully, my month of November will be 100% clean from internet misuse.

 

Day 3

 

Thank you very much for your advice. I find that if I even spend 5 minutes on YouTube or Twitter, my productivity for the rest of the day goes down a lot, so I don't allow myself even 5 minutes.

 

Day 4