I got my cable disconnected two days ago. I sold a few old CDs that I don’t listen to anymore. I also finally got a local ISP connection up here (I’m not using the university’s dial-up system anymore).<\/p>\n
Big deal, you say.<\/p>\n
Well, each of these in and of themselves probably aren’t a big deal. They’re simple little things. But when combined, they’re going to mark a big change for the good in my life.<\/p>\n
How, you ask? Easy. I don’t have cable anymore. I discovered this week that there are only two days out of the week that I truly care anything about watching television. The rest of the time I spend watching TV is purely out of habit. I come home, I flip on the television, and two hours pass before I realize what’s happened. I figured out that the two nights that I really care about watching something weren’t worth the time I wasted watching it or the money I spent on cable. So I went and got it disconnected. There are a lot of things that I plan to do with my new-found time, and when I watch Friends<\/em> I can watch it with friends.<\/p>\n The CDs were along the same idea. I didn’t really listen to them much anymore, and I figured that it would be better for me to get CDs that I actually did listen to instead of just keeping the old ones. So I sold six of my old ones to a used-CD place and bought two new ones.<\/p>\n The local ISP was also a no-brainer. I had wanted to go that route for a long time, because the university’s dial-up connection only allows you to stay on two hours at a time (I don’t normally spend that much consecutive time online, but it can be a pain downloading stuff) and because you can never get a connection when you need it. Realizing that I had an extra $30 each month from the cable to work with clinched the deal.<\/p>\n So, let’s see…I no longer have in my life one of the biggest wasters of my time (cable TV), things that I never used anyway (the old CDs), and a somewhat useful but often-irritating ISP. I now have lots more free time, new CDs that are useful to me, and a better dial-up connection, not to mention $15 saved per month.<\/p>\n Simple little things. All I had to do was just put forth the effort to make the changes. And there probably a lot more of them in my life that I haven’t noticed yet. Look for these…individually they might not mean a whole lot, but collectively they can really change your life for the better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I got my cable disconnected two days ago. I sold a few old CDs that I don’t listen to anymore. I also finally got a local ISP connection up here (I’m not using the university’s dial-up system anymore). Big deal, you say. Well, each of these in and of themselves probably aren’t a big deal. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts-insightful"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}