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After I wrote my end of the year 2022 newsletter, I took a step back and realized how much information I was consuming and inputting into my system on a regular basis. In that newsletter, I shared a few books I was reading and 10 podcasts that I listen to.
After I sent that newsletter out, I realized, wow, that was only 10 podcasts out of somewhere between 20 to 40 that I regularly listen to.
I am now on the other side of my input fast by 4 weeks, which is the perfect time to reflect a bit more.
Podcasts. I didn’t add my podcast app back onto my phone until three weeks after the input fast ended, which means that my podcast part of this experiment ended up lasting just over 5 weeks. When I added the app back in, my whole podcast library had been deleted.
I keep finding myself taking breaks from social media, to pause. As someone running an online business, this is frowned upon and discouraged in most business circles. They preach relevance, engagement, and posting above all else. That’s just not me. While it might have been in the early days when I joined Insta in 2011, as the platform grew and changed, I have gotten less engaged, for one very specific reason, I’ve gotten more engaged with myself.
Do you ever want to be internet free? For a day, a week, a month, permanently? I know I do, and that feeling has been increasing more and more as time goes on.
I don’t know if in this day and age and especially in the coming times, if it is possible to go permanently internet free.
The other day I deactivated my Facebook account. In the last three or so years, I have very rarely been on FB except for advertising and business purposes, or when a group I was a part of was using it as their main medium. Any time I have used it, I have done so begrudgingly. I have been moving away from the platform for years. So the other day, I decided to take my experiment to the next level and deactivate my account.