Thanks to Kevin Hart I now refer to COVID as ‘The Vid”. When 2020 happened and The Vid went thermonuclear around the world I tuned in. I’m not much of a news person but I wanted to understand what was going on. I marginally tuned in until I saw about 60 seconds of a CNN RONA special.
The set of this show was different. It was dark, everything was black and red. The studio looked like when Darth Vader fought Luke Skywalker at the end of The Empire Strikes Back. Even Edgar Allen Poe couldn’t make that set look anymore melancholy and dangerous.
And just like that. I divorced news coverage on The Vid. I was out. I never watched a watched a ‘news’ program or special report on The Vid again. That’s not to say I stopped learning about it. I just refused to buy into the fear.
Divorce is a strong word and can be an emotional experience, especially for anyone going thru a divorce from a marriage. But it can be a pretty handy tool. I took a Perry Marshall course called 30 Day Reboot. The course is about getting more of your time (which is to say your life) back. The first thing I did was I emancipated myself from a butt-load of email lists I was on.
Other relationships I’ve broken up with over the years is.
My cell phone. I can’t do my art if I’m typing, texting, and looking at notifications.
Social media. I “check in” but I don’t hang out like I used to. I check the “pulse on the street” if I have down-time and that’s about it. Facebook used to send me emails to lure me back and I unsubscribed from that email list too.
The old Ray Charles song comes to mind…
“Hit the road Jack and don’t you come back
No more, no more, no more, no more
Hit the road Jack and don’t you come back no more…”
What habit, tool, system, or app could you tell to hit-the-road so you could get more time back or live a more fulfilled life?
Divorcing one of these little crumb snatchers could save you a few minutes a day. And that would get you back almost one full day a year.
Adam