Here's part 4 of an article on how to save hours and "add" time to your life. Today's tips are estimated to save you seven hours or more:
Computer time. Computers are like phones: When you use them it's easy to lose track of time. "Check e-mail twice a day and return messages all at once. You'll save an hour a day," suggests Breese.
TV viewing. "Establish one or two TV-free nights every week," says Judith Wright, author of There Must Be More Than This: Finding More Life, Love, and Meaning by Overcoming Your Soft Addictions. "Families can gain back eight hours a week this way since Americans, on average, watch four hours of TV a night."
If you have a service such as TiVO, program it to record your TV favorites without the commercials and watch it later. Many new home computers include digital entertainment options, with hardware that connects a TV cable to the computer and software that records your favorite shows directly to the hard drive. You could save as much as eight hours a week.
They are killing me!!! The computer and the TV are my biggest time offenders!! Most computer time is work or blog related (so I'll let this one pass). The only things I watch regularly on TV are football and AFV (with the family), but this probably adds up to several hours a week. If I only had ESPN, then all I'd need to do is watch the highlights. ;-)
Oh yes, it starts out innocently. I go to the computer to check email or get some info. Pretty soon I'm reading financial blogs.....
Posted by: diane from PA | November 11, 2005 at 08:49 AM