Moving

I am so sorry for letting you all wait so long for a new post!

Over the last couple of weeks I have been moving and am therefore without internet. It should have been installed by now, but the incredible people from the provider forgot to send our request out... so it will be a while until I am connected again.

Until then I will be working on my applications and writing posts, but will only be able to post them online when we get internet at the new place.

Hope you all can wait a little longer. I promise there are some very interesting posts coming along!

Cross your fingers that they don't screw it up again...

My TV addiction

In my last post I mentioned two articles/posts that give you useful steps to overcome TV addiction. Here are the 9 steps that I found most useful:

TV Addiction

After my realization I did a little bit of research on TV addiction. Even though it is not a diagnosable condition of DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV) it is recognized as a real problem. It is a form of behavioral addiction, in which an individual repeatedly engages in an action until said action causes serious negative consequences to the person's physical, mental, social, and/or financial well being.

There have not been any serious negative consequences for me, but I know this cannot continue this way. I have a very active boyfriend, who does a lot of sport. He does not like the fact that I spend so much time watching TV. And he is right: I could be using my time for other things.

While researching I found a couple of interesting articles and sites on TV addiction and how to overcome it.

Hello all, my name is Tina and I am a TV addict...

I have been a TV addict since my early teens. But recently it has become clear to me that I have to do something about it. While writing my dissertation for my Masters Degree I noticed how much time I spent procrastinating and how much of that time was spent watching series or looking for new things to watch when I already had watched all new episodes available. I handed in my dissertation last Friday (Yay! I'm done!) two weeks after the date that I originally had planed to submit... It was still on time, but I could have done it much faster and better.

So I decided to do something about it. Make more time to do all those things I wanted to do for so long. One of them is to write a blog. I had one years ago when I moved abroad to study. A blog to keep friends and family up to date. But it did not last very long... To start a new blog I knew I had to have a topic. A while ago a friend of mine started to write about fashion (Fashinably Late by Natalia Galbetti). I love her blog and what she has done with it. But I do not think I am qualified to write about fashion. Besides, there are a lot of bloggers out there doing that already. And most of them know what they are writing about.

Besides Nati, another thing that inspired me to write a blog again was the film Julie & Julia. I love cooking and thought the idea to have a project and acompany it with a blog was very good. In this way everyone knows when you give up, fall behind or break promises, even if you made them to yourself. Since I did not want to copy the idea of cooking I stil needed to find a project. When I realized how much time I spend watching TV I had my project.

I promised myself to not use this blog as a means to procrastinate. The only thing I did while still writing my dissertation was to find a name. The afternoon after handing in my dissertation I set this up and today I am writing my first post.

Whith this blog I hope to regain control over the time I spend watching TV, gain more experience with social media and analytic tools, try out new and exciting stuff, and get to do all those things I have been pushing to the future (like running).

Hopefully you'll enjoy my blog and acompany me in the journey of kicking my TV addiction. Over the next posts I will tell you a little bit more about me and what exactly I want to do with this blog.

Stay tuned for more! ;-)

Coming soon...

I am in the process of setting up this blog. It will be about kicking TV addiction and what to do with all the spare time.

Stay tuned if you are interested! If you have any advice about blogging or blog templates let me hear it!