And monitoring news and blogs can sometimes teach us new things, which gives a feeling of accomplishment. And sometimes THAT feeling can be a dangerous path. It’s an obvious and easy solution to stop doing something which gives you nothing. But to stop doing something that gives infrequent or periodic knowledge is more difficult.

It’s a moderation game, I think. If I cannot write and follow 200 blogs in my feed reader…can I write and follow 100? What about 50? I need to find out the solution for myself, since I obviously don’t want to stop following blogs. But perhaps I should stop following quite as MANY blogs, especially those that I don’t often find content that engages me.

Most of “us” will invariable do something similar by checking our favorites on a daily basis and monitoring news websites or any other that have peaked our interests.

The ends end up being the same as television though, with little accomplished.

Of course accomplishments then become something thats an abstract and the question arises, what does it take for something you do to become a recognized accomplishment? Do other have to witness it and appreciated it? Or does it just have to provide you with some feeling of moving forward?

if the latter is true, perhaps some that spend so much of their free time watching Tv do feel accomplished as they have met their lofty goals for the day.

That’s a great lesson, and one I still haven’t entirely learned. Planning veg time is absolutely imperative, I think. No one can be go go go go go all the time.

The trick is making sure we don’t plan so much veg time that we don’t actually do anything BUT veg! Sometimes that’s a tough one for me.