TV Turnoff Week- Quarantine Edition
HelloOoOo and Good Morning!
The weather is finally starting to feel like summer in New Jersey :) It makes me equal parts excited and stir crazy. To add to my stir craziness, I decided to take things up a notch in quarantine. And by I decided, it was kind of thrust upon me from the creative endeavor, The Artist's Way. I've been following the program for 4 weeks, and this week a new challenge is introduced where you aren't allowed to read for a week.
In addition to not reading, you aren't allowed to watch TV, go on social media, etc. It's kind of like a quarantine within a quarantine, right?
This reminds me of something we used to do in my elementary school called TV Turnoff Week. The idea was simple- go to an entire week without TV. As an avid rule follower, I took TV turnoff week very seriously, but as you can imagine, not everyone did. I don't think I understood the point of it then, but now more than ever, I think it's especially important to what what you're consuming in terms of content.
The idea behind this is to go on a sort of media cleanse; once you silence all of the distractions, you allow your own creativity to shine through. You prioritize creating over consuming. So, for the next 7 days, I will be committing to:
- No TV
- No Reading
- No Social Media (unless posting for Allison Ziggy)
- No YouTube
Convinced yet?
There is a lot of evidence to support the theory that this actually leads to an increased sense of happiness and wellbeing
Dopamine Detox
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QiE-M1LrZk
The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
I'll let you know how it goes, hopefully in the form of a genius Allison Ziggy idea!
xoxo,
Allison
