UPDATE ON INTERNET PLAN

Hey! If you’re seeing this now, but still want to read it, go to my blog and read the one about my plan to get offline more (tbh, I can’t remember what I named it, but I’m pretty sure it has the word “internet” in it)

So far, it’s working. However, it is only the first day of me working on this, so I don’t know for sure. To add to that, I have been EXTREMELY BUSY on a project (I legally can’t say what) I’m helping work on, so I haven’t had much to any time to consume anything on the internet. I’ve only been able to consume for a small amount of time. However, even in that time, a lot of the time, I chose to not consume and actually do other “productive” activities (sudoku. It isn’t super productive, but it isn’t rotting either so I think it’s progress).

I also want to let y’all know that I’m not just automatically able to do this (idk how to describe it). I have been working on my own system for things like this for a really long time. Hell, even when I was first starting on my journey with stuff like this, this system wouldn’t’ve worked. So, I just wanted to say, don’t (at least not immediately) do what I’m doing, it won’t work. I had to train myself (and a lot of it wasn’t specifically for this) to do this. However, I do have advice for people who are trying to get to this point:

1. Get into philosophy. Ik that sounds weird, but it really helped. To be able to do this, you have to do a lot of things that learning about philosophy makes you do. You have to sit with your thought and you have to grow. To grow, you need to be able to find what’s wrong with how you think or act and you have to figure out how to fix it (which is where the beliefs and thinking comes in)

2. Ease into it. If you try to do it immediately, you won’t be able to. Slowly ease into it by getting hobbies outside of your phone that are rewarding, yet not as fast. Get an app like Focus Friend that can help you slow down without completely quitting on things. Hell, I’m not even fully quitting social media, I’m never going to.

3. Daily journals and things like that will never be able to work unless you’re able to ground and force yourself into doing things that, at first, feel mundane. I have tried journals so much, and they never have worked. Kind of recently, I began teaching myself how to make myself clean without it fully feeling like a chore. It worked. I don’t know how it worked, but it did! (If you want me to blog a tutorial on that process, I will) Now, I’m able to ground myself into doing a lot of boring things that I wasn’t able to before, like journaling and things like that.

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk (/j). Thanks for reading this. I will yap to you next time!