New Year’s Resolution: Try Unplugging!

On January 4, 2007 I’ll be celebrating one year without cable or satellite TV service. That makes me a little unusual, to say the least.

According to the A.C. Nielson Company, the average American can be expected to invest the equivalent of 2 full, nonstop months watching TV next year, and a total of nine years in a 65 year lifetime.

That works out to about 4 hours per day.

Here is how I have spent the last 11 months.

(1) I wrote and published online and in traditional media more than 1,000 articles. The one you’re reading right now is, in fact, number 1,016.

(2) I expanded the reach of my professional speaking and consulting practice, internationally.

(3) I worked out more at the Y.

(4) I read more books and newspapers.

(5) I was calmer.

I have to admit I bought a set of rabbit ears at the 99 Cent Store to pick up some local channels and PBS stations. Because I got ABC, I saw a few big time college football games; at least part of them.

But overall, I may have watched 10 hours of TV all year.

I subscribed to Netflix, the movies-by-mail company, only to find that after four months I checked out all of the best pictures ever made. I’m not kidding!

And now, I’m being solicited by cable and satellite companies to come back, but a few things are keeping me away:

(1) I don’t like paying for stuff I don’t watch, feeling I must see junk just to recoup my monthly investment.

(2) I don’t want to lapse into the 4 hour a day viewing habit. I can write an entire book, from scratch in two months, so I’ll keep my time, instead.

For New Year’s, you should try unplugging, just to see what you’ll do with all of that extra time!

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Best-selling author of 12 books and more than 1,000 articles, Dr. Gary S. Goodman is considered "The Gold Standard" in negotiation, sales development, customer service, and telephone effectiveness. Top-rated as a speaker, seminar leader, and consultant, his clients extend across the globe and the organizational spectrum, from the Fortune 1000 to small businesses. He can be reached at: gary@customersatisfaction.com.

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