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Yesterday was a wake-up call for me.  I did absolutely nothing but surf the internet.  I have several projects I could have been working on or gone to see friends or done something productive but instead, 10am to 1am was spent almost entirely infront of the computer.  There was only 1 productive thing I did:

The dishes.

I’ll backtrack for a second to explain the title, I have what my friends jokingly call ADD-OCD.  Basically, what interests me jumps all over the place but once I clamp onto the next thing I get obsessive about it to the exclusion of all else… including eating.  Yesterday I barely bothered to eat aside from breakfast and some tortilla chips and sunflower seeds and that kind of scared me this morning.

So, effective immediately, I’m going on Timothy Ferris‘ Low-Information diet from The 4-Hour Work Week.  What is the low-info diet?  You basically cut out as many sources of information as possible for one week.  No news, no tv, no fiction books, no internet, no rss, no excessive email but you are allowed 1 hour of this stuff per day but that’s it.

It may seem excessive but I never seem to have time for anything really of my own.

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