Internet fasting Day 4 : New Music gear and saying goodbye to stuck backpacking friends

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I’m really getting into this rhythm of no YouTube or social media until 8 PM. I actually feel like not much has changed, I’m just being way more productive and proactive.

Last week I had bought a delay pedal, drive pedal and amp for about $150 used. I figured it was worth the investment, Cause usual the same stuff would cost about $400...found out it didn’t sound so good with acoustic guitar so I told some friends I was looking for a cheap electric. Today I got a message from a friend with a used goods shop,nice guitar for $45! A steal! So I spent under $200 for a whole set up. All I’d need is enough space and some soundproofing, and a midi keyboard and I could already set up a home studio. For now I’m happy jamming on delay!

So I spent 3 hours playing guitar yesterday. Then I broke my internet fasting for a bit just to finish the deadpost curation post of the week. Then I stretched and made some ads for my classes.

Today I continued putting up online ads for my coaching. Did some exercise, wrote a page for my novel. Picked up some tax documents.

Just finished my only class today.

A friends hostel has had 4 long term guests these past 2 months and no one else. Two of them are leaving this week. They’ve been awesome to hang out with and I’m gonna miss them a lot. They’re the only people I’ve been meeting with these few weeks aside from one other friend who I go on late night walks with. Tonight I’ll go say goodbye to the one whose leaving first. After next week I really won’t be going out at all. Just like the rest of y’all.

Oh, except Friday, I’ll go check out an apartment. The place I live now is a box and I would love to have more space and sunlight. Gotta find an extra 3 students to pay for it. I think I can do that!

Tomorrow I also have just one class at 7 pm so I hope yo get a lot done during the day!

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Hello @whatamidoing, Greetings from Ghana. What program are you doing? I can see you are keeping up with the fasting. Its worth it. They say, consistency creates habits

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Program? Just spending 8-10 hours a day with no social media or youtube :-D

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@porters here on behalf of @NaturalMedicine – Nice to see that internet fasting is working for you! I find it really important to find that balance between being in Cyberspace and then in the "real or Natural" world! Here's to finding 3 more students so you can make your move!

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Thanks! I'm still not where I want to be as far as FLOW, but I feel I'm almost halfway there!

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Sounds like things are going pretty good for you. Hope an extra three students appear so you can get the new apartment :D

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This could be a daily dairy - as if someone is writing from the prison (in a good way)!

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Yes. Books written from prisons often turn out to be the best. Even part of the bible was written from prison

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Damn. Never knew that. Pretty cool!

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monastic rites and cell schools
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monastic_cell

The word cell comes from the Old French celle meaning a monastic cell, itself from the Latin meaning room,[2] store room or chamber.[3]

@sidwrites a reclusive place where you can shape your thoughts and get lost in time is a creative well either nightmare, because of the lack of feedback, or a well because inspiration is always infinite and being in tune and out of the noise helps with the signal.

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This is the best prison I ever imagined :-D But yeah it does kind of feel like that. Can't wait to be free and 100x more awesome

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Reading this makes me happy. Exciting changes and increased creativity!

I try to do the opposite ( in a way ), to stop internetting and screen staring around 8PM
but it's still a challenge for me.

Also throughout the day, I try to be more and more aware of what I'm doing on the Internet and how it makes me feel.

See you around!

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I hope all my posts make everyone happy! Your posts make me happy too, and i am not just saying that

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