948: 8 Changes I Experienced After Giving Up TV by Steve Pavlina

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🗓️ 16 July 2018

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Steve Pavlina shares 8 changes he experienced after giving up TV. Episode 948: 8 Changes I Experienced After Giving Up TV by Steve Pavlina (Minimalism & How to Start a Minimalist Lifestyle). Steve Pavlina is widely recognized as one of the most successful personal development bloggers on the Internet, with his work attracting more than 100 million visits to his website, StevePavlina.com. He has written more than 1300 articles and recorded many audio programs on a broad range of self-help topics, including productivity, relationships, and spirituality. Steve has been quoted as an expert by the New York Times, USA Today, U.S. News & World Report, the Los Angeles Daily News, Self Magazine, The Guardian, and countless other publications. He's also a frequent guest on popular podcasts and radio shows. The original post is located here: https://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/08/8-changes-i-experienced-after-giving-up-tv Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 948.
0:03.5	8 Changes I Experienced After Giving Up TV
0:06.6	by Steve Pavlina of stevepavlina.com
0:09.6	and I'm Justin Malik, your personal narrator, reading blogs to you, mostly, but sometimes books.
0:14.6	Anything that I think will help you optimize your life.
0:17.3	Today's post being from Steve Pavlina, so let's get right to it as we optimize your life.
0:22.7	8 Changes I Experienced After Giving Up TV
0:30.1	by Steve Pavlina of stevepavlina.com
0:32.9	In June, I decided to do a 30-day trial of no TV watching.
0:38.9	DVDs were okay, but I wasn't going to watch any regular programming or cable shows
0:43.6	or tape anything with my DVR. At the end of the 30-day trial,
0:47.7	I was pleased with the results, so I kept going.
0:50.8	Now that it's been over 60 days, I thought I'd share my observations on life without TV.
0:56.5	1. Becoming More Aware of the TV's presence
1:01.0	The rest of my family didn't join me in this experiment, so there was still some TV viewing in our home.
1:05.6	When I stopped watching TV, I became much more aware of the TV's presence when others were watching it.
1:11.7	I began finding the TV a noisy nuisance, and I started encouraging the rest of the family to keep
1:16.4	the TV turned off during meal times.
1:19.5	2. Noticing TV's presence outside the home
1:24.0	When I went to the gym, I really began noticing all the video monitors and TVs.
1:29.1	My gym has flat panel TVs with individual remotes at most of the cardio exercise stations.
1:34.5	I never liked watching TV while exercising, so I always turned mine off,
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