Disadvantages Of Watching TV – Why You Should Ditch TV
Want to know the disadvantages of watching TV? Here are the top reasons why you need to ditch watching TV this weekend!
Let’s chat about the disadvantages of watching TV.
First, let me ask you a question:
How much time do you spend watching television?
Can you be honest with me?
I mean, have you ever sat down to work out how many hours you spend binge-watching shows on Netflix and other forms of television?
According to recent research, adults between the ages of 35 and 50 watch over 33 hours of TV per week. That’s almost 5 hours per day. It can’t be true, can it?
It’s fair to say that most people watch more television on the weekends than they do during the week so over the course of the week this total could potentially come to 33 hours.
But honestly, that is a mind-boggling figure!
Now before you shake your head at these so-called TV addicts and say NO WAY DO I WATCH THAT MUCH TV I want you to check your screen time total on your phone and see how much time you spend on social media instead.
Is the total any better?
Are you a saint or a sinner in this area of your life?
Either way, logically speaking, anything more than 10 hours per week on social media or TV seems wasteful. Am I right? Think of all the things you could be doing instead with that time!
How much different would your life be if you spent those 5 hours each day working on something else?
Consider the changes you could make to your health, social life, family life, and personal development if you just made the effort to have less screen time.
Spend one weekend without TV and see what might happen:
DISADVANTAGES OF WATCHING TV
1 – You’ll be forced to investigate other interests.
Watching television is often a default action.
It’s what you do when you can’t find anything else to do.
Have you ever taken an iPad away from a child or forced them away from the TV and seen their mind suddenly come back to life?
It’s like the screen was numbing them from the lack of interaction with the outside world and muting their personality and emotions.
Without this default distraction, kids are forced to find other ways to entertain themselves and the same truth applies to adults too.
Even if you may find screen time enjoyable, you have to be kidding yourself if you think this is a productive use of your time
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2 – You can spend more time with your family.
Instead of reruns of Modern Family for the 12th time, you can take your family to the park or go on a road-trip or have a BBQ in the backyard.
Or just sit together and talk and actually LOOK INTO THEIR EYES for a change.
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3 – You can improve your health.
How would your health change if you dropped just 4 hours of television per week and spent that time exercising?
Can you imagine the impact of those extra exercise hours in your life?
Today is the perfect time to swap screen time with a new exercise program.
Stop saying your health matters, without actually doing something about it!
Prove it to yourself.
Hold yourself accountable.
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4 – You can connect with other people.
Remember all those friends you have on Facebook and Instagram?
Instead of pressing like on their latest posts, why not actually pick up the phone and invite them over for a change?
Or organize to meet them out somewhere, like at a dinner.
People use social media as an excuse for connecting with people but guess what – real connection takes place when you actually see people face to face.
You are a living, breathing human being with the potential to do so much with your life!
So why not get out of the house and be around others.
Don’t wait until Christmas or special occasions to see your loved ones or extended family.
Arrange to do something with them today, instead of wasting hours in front of a screen.
DISADVANTAGES OF WATCHING TV
5 – You could read a book.
As a readaholic, I am truly surprised that people don’t read more often. Is it a dying pastime? I truly hope not!
Most people fail to read even one book per year but that’s often because the thought of picking up a book doesn’t even cross their minds (not when the TV remote is so much easier to reach for).
Imagine how much more you could learn if you became a regular reader.
Imagine how much more you could relax, if you unwound every night by reading a fabulous novel.
There is a book written on almost any topic and in any genre you can imagine.
Go out and grab a book to read today!
DISADVANTAGES OF WATCHING TV
6 – It’s a great time to tackle a major project.
Big projects are challenging to start but guess what’s the easiest way to avoid them?
By procrastinating and gravitating to the TV and staying there until there’s not enough time left to do any real work.
Maybe tomorrow or another day or next weekend, you might tell yourself.
Sure…let’s see how that works out for you.
DISADVANTAGES OF WATCHING TV
I have a better suggestion for you.
Turn off the television right now and STAY OFF IT and you will have more than enough time to begin tackling a major project.
In fact you will get a great start on it.
Remember that book you keep dreaming about writing won’t get written on its own.
That business you keep talking about starting won’t be launched while you are sitting on that couch.
Nothing will happen unless you GET OFF YOUR BUTT to make things happen!
Life is short and time is precious. Use it wisely.
DISADVANTAGES OF WATCHING TV
7 – You can spend time with yourself.
I personally love ALONE time but there are plenty of people who can’t stand the idea of sitting by themselves and with their own thoughts for a moment.
Television is the perfect distraction.
There’s sound, moving pictures, and a compelling story.
Just enough disturbance to distract yourself from thinking about your worries and why needs to be done.
But guess what?
None of that stuff goes away permanently when you switch on the TV.
If you are stressed you are better off trying to find a constructive solution to your problem instead.
DISADVANTAGES OF WATCHING TV
8 – You’ll have time to address your challenges.
Ah challenges – we all have them!
And here’s the thing that TV watching – when you sit there, trying to avoid the things that make you unhappy, watching TV solves nothing.
You could and should be spending that time instead enhancing your life by facing your challenges head-on.
With effective action, you can change your life quickly.
If you usually spend your weekend watching television, please consider unplugging for just one weekend. I urge you to take this challenge!
When you see how much more you can accomplish in your life, you’ll be a changed person honestly.
You need to know that your TV or social media habit is limiting your life.
It really is (if you are spending wasting hours a day on it every week).
That is the biggest con of watching TV.
Those are hours you are NEVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER going to get back my friend!
Time is precious and many of us think and act like we have a million more hours at our disposal.
Stop behaving in this careless way today if you can!
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