Comments on: Personal Experiment

By: sara

sara — Sun, 28 Jul 2013 17:50:29 +0000

you have a great idea as usual.I really enjoy reading it.It is a like a bucket full of cold water someone splash on my face ,it makes me wake up and looks around and find out there are another ways to spend our time too.thank u so much.nice time guys.

By: Jim Zhao

Jim Zhao — Sun, 21 Jul 2013 13:58:45 +0000

Hey,thanks for your wonderful idea. I did my experiment from this firday. So far so good. It’s almost 3 days for me not to watch the shows on my iPad. Acturally it is difficult to control myself in these days. Every time i wanted to see just an episode, I recalled what you said and tried my best to pay attention to other things, such as cleaning the room, recognizing the photoes in the laptop, reading a book that i am interested in, but never have time to read it before.

Now I found that watching the shows wasted so much time. I can do many things if i don’t just sit and watch the shows. I will continue my experiment for a whole week at least.

Best Wishes
Jim

By: grace

grace — Sat, 20 Jul 2013 15:03:10 +0000

Hi!

Easier said than done.. Once I heard one guest on the radio which I listen to that if you do something for 30 days straight it will definitely become your habit.
There’s nothing wrong in doing those habits mentioned above, in my opinion because they give us a little bit of happiness in the sense that we do it because we like it. The only Thing that makes a habit bad is when we do it way too much that it already affects our activities of daily living.

By: amin

amin — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 08:34:24 +0000

hi there!
I totally agree with you on this topic and I think I got the point.
From where I stand,big companies try to get us use to do some stuff or use some devices that are not that much essential for us and ,in most cases,make us waste more and more time and . if i want to present an crystal clear example, I’d ratter mention iPad. from my point of view iPad is not useful and handy for most of the people since it is neither as big and capable as a laptop,nor as small and easy-carrying as a smartphone. hence some well-reputed universal brands do their best to make people believe that they need such stuff and they should purchase one(or more). this road down , most of the people turn to some consumers that waste a lot of their precious time everyday and become too lazy to do a bunch of stuff they are capable of. more over , they would avoid giving a try to new stuff that are strange for them (strange things look more difficult in most cases),as long as the only thing they are eager to is being comfort,without facing any certain problems.
One of religious acts that is somehow typical in Iran, is fasting during a certain month of year ,called Ramadan. in this month you ought not to eat and drink any thing from sunrise to sun set.
on this period of year ,which a day lasts for about 17 hours, it seems to be a kind of big struggle or huge challenge if you fast for 30 days in a row, but If you do it just for some days ,you can see the change. it turns out for you that you are not that much food dependent and since food is one of crucial essentials for human beings ,you would feel so strong and self-dependent . it perhaps help you feel released of all that fears and laziness you had already.
beside the example of quitting Facebook ( i was a kind of Facebook addicted ) that really worked out for me some months ago , the one that I came up with can be useful ,too. give it a shot ! it really worth it

By: Val

Val — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 08:44:58 +0000

Of course, this whole idea makes sense. But we have to remember that people are different. Some of them don’t have will power at all. So this tactic would be very useful for them.

For example, I don’t watch TV and try to read and watch only the information I’m interested in. As for sport, I do fitness almost every day.

But as for healthy food… this’s more difficult question. I was used to try to eat healthy. But my experience showed that there is not completely healthy food in our world. All products have nitrates, carcinogens, food additives and so on. Even if you try to eat natural food, it’s not natural. So I don’t see much benefit in not eating of what you love to eat.

Just one example: We all know that smoking, drinking, eating junk food is bad for your health. But recently I was at a resort on my vacation. And there were plenty of old Europeans in their 60-s-70-s who was drinking and smoking all the time. And it seems that they have been doing that during for all their lives. But… they were soooo energetic and full of strengh=) Not every young person has so much energy, really.

Of course, I don’t say that smoking, drinking and pigging out is good. I just want to say that healthy lifestyle don’t guarantee you happy healthy life. At the same time, eating not very healthy doesn’t always have bad effect.

I think, that love to life, constant self-development and positive thinking are true keys to happiness.

And sometimes self-deprivation can be very stressful for a person and have bad consequences.

You need to listen to yourself. If you feel really bad because of some your activity, of course, you should stop doing that. But if you enjoy doing something, even if it’s not very useful and wastes your time, why shouldn’t you do that? There is not very much enjoyment in our modern stressful life. Create it by yourself.

Be friend to yourself, but do everything reasonably. Set right goals and reach them.

By: Ivan Kolev

Ivan Kolev — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 09:54:27 +0000

Hello Andy. Good discussion on … so call it. Personally I never had exactly these problems …. but as a human being , I have problems of course. Here I want to tell you how I managed to defeat all the bad habits. Maybe in the beginning it was just a sport .. martial artist who taught me faith, discipline, never give up on something i was started. I want to say to all people here in this blog if you have these problems, how to solve them.

Andy is right…. that the first thing HE say …. to stop doing things that waste your time.
1. this is the most important thing.
2. to have goals in life.
I know that is easier said … and it is difficult to achieve .. but NOTHING is EASY and FREELY in this life. If you want something, you have to pay the price for it!

By: Padid

Padid — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 08:17:59 +0000

Hi everyone,
I suppose, quitting an addiction depends on how well determined we are. The point is human beings have been designed to be social, thus, leaving social networking sites for a long period of time seems somehow impossible but from another point of view, it appeals to me as notion of not eating unhealthy food or smoking any kind of cigarettes. For instance, I have stopped drinking cokes for more than 3 years and almost forgotten the joy of tasting it and when I see their advertisements all over the place I realize that how ridiculous they are and I couldn’t notice them before quitting.
On the whole, changing our physical life-styles could have had positive influences mentally and psychologically. Quite like the idea…

By: Carol

Carol — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 07:01:28 +0000

I totally agree when you say some of those things, like watching TV or surfing on the internet, can kill our time. I could totally relate when you talked about turning on the computer and, when you notice, two hours have gone by. Doing such things really prevent us for doing other things that are more productive and even better for us: instead of using the computer, we could spend more time with our friends and family or we could learn something new.
On the other hand, sometimes using your spare time doing nothing is just fun, and sometimes we can do it just for the hell of it. I mean, we also deserve some fun, don’t we? But, if it becomes something that takes too much time of our days, then it is something we should try to cut out.

My problem, personaly, is about procrastination. I tend to spend to much time just thinking about doing something, or going around the house with no purpose… Since I’m preparing to go to college, time is the key for me, and I need to be able to deal with my lazyness and try to get more time in my already hectic life.

By: Yuri

Yuri — Tue, 16 Jul 2013 14:34:09 +0000

Nice thoghts, but it is not so easy to start changing the life!!!

By: Negar,Iran

Negar,Iran — Tue, 16 Jul 2013 14:10:38 +0000

Before suggesting any way for how to cut out some bad habits, it seems more necessary to internalize emotionally and mentally what is really bad about having those types of habits. For instance, if I mentally do not reach to the point that spending a lot of time on net surfacing or watching TV,actually would have no positive outcome in my life and even worse, just take up some valuable time for doing some valuable activities ,then, how can I be motivated to start quitting those habits? Even if I start and manage to stop them,I’ll do those habits again with more enthusiasm, as I am not rationally justified and just have been deprived of them for a while. Therefore, it seems to be some kind of psychological process rather than just proposing how and when to start cutting out those habits.
Thanks Andy.