i'm back

Well I'm back from my week long electronics sabbatical. Honestly I thought it would be a lot more interesting. I guess the "highlight" if you can call it that was my wife getting mad everyday because she couldn't get a hold of me. Maybe it was just because it was such a short time, who knows, but I think last week bothered her a lot more than it did me.

Anyways, here are 3 things I learned:

I need to get my watch fixed - My watch strap broke maybe 2 years ago. I never got it fixed because I honestly never used it. Even when it was on my arm I found myself checking my phone for the time. When I wasn't at home last week, it was frustrating not knowing what time it was.

I was not as bored as I thought I would be - The times I thought I would be bored (sitting at the doctor's office, downtime at work, etc.) were just replaced by other things to keep me from being bored. Instead of surfing the internet, I read a few books. Instead of watching TV, we played card games. The only time I was really bored was when I finished reading my book at work and had nothing else to do. Other than that I found myself surprisingly entertained.

I am going to try and achieve more goals - The day I finished my book I sat around for awhile with nothing to do. Then I started thinking about a list I made in high school which was either 50 or 100 goals, I can't remember which. Anyways I realized that I have not tried to really achieve any goals in a long time, so I made a list of things I want to do. I only came up with 16 things this time, but I decided to put a lot more attention towards it. One of my goals is to weigh less than 200 pounds, even if just for a day. I set a challenge for myself to see if I can lose 20 pounds in the month of June. We'll see how it goes.

I wasn't sure if I would get anything out of avoiding using my phone/computer/other stuff for a week, and in a lot of ways I really didn't. Nonetheless, I'm glad I did it. I am not very spontaneous and I usually tend to over think everything. Maybe doing this one stupid thing will help me to be more spontaneous and just do things for the hell of it. Maybe I will stop needing sufficient reasons for every action I take in life. Maybe my reluctance to try and achieve goals is because I over think everything. Maybe I will stop constantly finding reasons why I shouldn't do things. Or more likely, I'm just overanalyzing the relevance of last week.