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I had the television on while I was eating a few nights ago. After I was done eating, I kicked my foot up onto the table, laid back, and watched whatever worthless spectacle was on.

Seems innocent enough.

But for a split second, I was able to see myself as someone walking into my apartment would have. The sight freaked me out.

At first, it seemed all well and good to sit around and watch television after a long day of “working” and finishing a decent meal. But when I had my out-of-body experience, it was a completely different story.

I saw myself as some lazy lump that had nothing else going on with his life that sitting on a broken couch to watch television was a viable option for the rest of my night.

How many of you do this?

Does that seem like a complete waste of time to anyone else? To watch weird people on television play a role that you in some way covet. You want to be the guy that is a superhero and wears a mask. You want to be the lady who has a ton of money and a ton of shoes and nothing to do with her day. But instead of using your powerful, breathtakingly bulky brain to even attempt to figure out a way to liberate yourself from a boring desk job that you hate, you come home and watch TV until you’re too tired to think for yourself.

Everyone is good at something. Everyone has something in their life that they need to accomplish but for some reason never get around to finishing. I hope that the supersmart readers of my blog will change that.

Try this insane idea. Take 30 minutes each day this weekend (Friday after work, Saturday, and Sunday) and use this time to do that thing that you’ve really wanted to get around to doing but haven’t done.

If you think about it, 30 minutes is a drop in the bucket when you relate it to how much time there is in a day. Then consider how small 90 minutes is when you compare it with how many minutes you have in an entire weekend!

If you don’t read this on Friday, that’s not an excuse not to take 30 minutes sometime during the rest of this weekend and get something accomplished.

Here is what I will be doing. I will go through the thousands of pictures that I have taken and put on my computer. Once I do that, I will put all of my best shots into a couple of folders. Then I will finally put together some type of portfolio of my best pictures. For accountability, I will post a few of them to this blog Sunday night or Monday morning.

Post what you are going to accomplish with your weekend in the comments.

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Tyler Durden over at the RealSocialDynamics blog wrote a really good article explaining how people are socially conditioned to think things that are bad for us are actually good and enjoyable.

For example, most people enjoy donuts. But there’s not one thing in a donut that makes it worthwhile to put in your body. And things like donuts make for bad news when it decides to come back out.

A lot of people enjoy reality tv. But I wonder how many people stop and think about all of the valuable time they’ve wasted after watching the latest episode of whatever and how that time could have better been used.

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with relaxing and rewarding yourself from time to time. But you shouldn’t have a nightly ritual of donking off the evening by staring at a glowing box of cable or satellite signals. Think of the children!!!

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http://www.feedthepig.org/

I saw a commercial that referenced this site that really hit home.

Go to their videos section and look at the 2nd video entitled “Video Store”. This link might do it.

I spent almost half of the day yesterday researching TV’s and picking out the perfect one for my place. I don’t need a new one but hey… IT’S AMERICA!!! And it was a great deal.

After hours of researching and coveting those lovely 42″ LCD HDTVs, I decided that I reeeeally don’t need one. Even though they are kinda cute and cuddly looking these days.

Today while I was on the treadmill, I saw that commercial that I referenced above. If my mind wasn’t already made up to not get it, that commercial sealed the deal. In those 10 seconds of video, it pointed out how unnecessary it would be for me to get it. Especially since all I watch on TV is 24 and America’s Funniest Home Videos!

So check out the site. It’s actually pretty good. They have a calendar that you can print out that has little ideas that you can do on certain days to get your money right.

Be well.

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