GENERAL TIME WATERS
2. UNCONTROLLED TV
Wealthy people
have big libraries, not big TVs.
Most of us have spent the better
part of our time watching TV. We spent hours upon hours on that black box in
front of us called TV without being productive. We keep on flipping channel
upon channel and we keep on becoming less productive by the day. Excessive TVs
is one of the factors in the world that wastes peoples’ time. There are times
we need to cut down on TVs. In fact sometime we need to shut it down so as to
achieve something in life. Some of us are so used to TVs that you can literally
tell all the programmes they have in the day and their time when we are not a
reporter. One of the things I have noticed that is really clamping down the
time of the youth is what they called “Seasoned films”. You see film that has
season one to nine. Have you ever wonder how many hours it takes to watch one
season talk less of finishing it to season 8. If only part of the time is
invested positively in developing a skill or learning an art that will be more productive
to us. We could have gone farther than where we are today. We don’t need to look
down on ourselves but that is the reality. Am I saying we should not watch TV?
No but not at the expense of what we need to do. Watching of TV should be
moderate. Let me give you a shocker. Bill
Gate was interviewed; he said I have no TV cable running over my house. That is
why he is successful and the whole world is watching him. I heard one man
of God saying, those who make news do not watch news. Where is the time? Listen
except you want to be a quack somewhere in your village, you need your time to
become what you want to be in life. If you really want to be somebody in life,
invest your time.
Here is what is discovered in the US concerning watching of TV
by James Delrojo
The average American watches television for over four hours
per day. That's 4 hours per day of sitting around like a vegetable, not using
your brain and not doing anything to actually enhance your life.
Television watching has greatly reduced the amount of
reading that people doing. Yet one of the biggest differences between people
who have a successful, happy life compared to those who don't is that the
successful, happy people read a lot more that those who are unsuccessful or
unhappy.
I was looking for the attitude of successful people towards
watching television and the second discovery I found out about watching TV is
shocking.
Successful
people don’t watch TV. They don’t fill their brains with junk, but use the
time productively.
“American
children and adolescents spend 22 – 28 hours per week viewing television, more
than any other activity except sleeping. By the age of 70, they will have spent
7 – 10 years of their life watching TV”
The
Kaiser Family Foundation
What do you remember from a night’s watching TV? Do you
want to waste 7 -10 years of your life doing something you don’t remember?
Wealthy people have big libraries, not big TVs. Who do you want to be
like? Your mind is an amazing instrument, picking up information from all the
input sources. Do you want to fill it with Idol, Desperate Housewives/other
trashy drama?
By the time you spend 8 hours every day sleeping. It means
when you are 60 years, you would have slept for 20 years and watch TV for like
6 years of your life. What then remain of you? You are not a time bomb that
will explode anytime. You are here on Earth to make impact. It is time for us
to adjust the use of our time.
changing lives by changing peoples' perspective
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