carac
"and if this is the end, i am glad i met you."
- May 27, 2023
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There is no time like the present! Hope the new gym works out for youThis is the most ridiculously timed challenge. Thanks @carac !
I'm a very regular gym goer, so this ordinarily would not be a 'challenge' for me. That was until last week when I relocated! I currently have no membership. Been tempted to allow this as a 'rest' week with needing to arse around town with paperwork etc BUT that is not good for anyone - especially future me.
SO - kick up the backside. One of my new local gyms does a 7 day free pass trial. Have got my plans tomorrow to go sign up for that and try it out - not lose my routine of weights sessions. And then will hopefully feel the need to max out the free 7 days! Saying this out loud this evening so theres accountability for me not being lazy - will report back tomorrow...
Good luck! I've never really got drawn in to shorts. I tried Tik Tok but didn't really take to it. I did go through a period where I was getting sucked into the youtube algorithm so I installed an extension that blocked all recommended content. That seemed to help.I'm going to be cutting out on YouTube shorts / other short-form content throughout all of November and - hopefully - never watch reels again. Sometimes I even forget that I'm watching short-form content on my computer and whenever I come across it and remember that it is a reel, I either finish the video I'm watching if it's really interesting, or - ideally - immediately go back to the YouTube homepage.
Reels decrease attention span by a lot and I - along with a lot of others - am a victim of it. I've witnessed the effects personally, be measuring how many pages of a book I can read in an hour. I can see the improvement happening, 10 pages every hour.
I'd love to see if any others are going to do this with me (let me know!), I'm practicing for November right now and as of right now, I've got plenty of time to get that practice in before the real thing starts.
Remember guys - I know it's hard but you have to remind yourself what this is doing to your attention span. If you're seriously addicted than try to cut back from shorts for a day or so and see how it goes.
I'd love to talk to you about this, feel free to do so!
Yours
-A350
P.S. - a really good tip for recovering back attention span unrelated to short-form content is to spend 40 minutes in a session/livestream about something you're interested in/a career you want to do.
For example, I engaged in a Discord QNA session on being a pilot which lasted for approximately 40 minutes.
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