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Many Things to Do Instead of Watching TV

  • Reading Linchpin on a Kindle
  • Blogging about life on a private blog
  • Drafting a letter to borrow $50K from a friend
  • Tending to your plants with love and water
  • Talking to your kids about everything and anything
  • Surfing, for sure
  • Having drinks at a bar with your wife
  • Planning your own personal revolution
  • Stalking the President on the beach
  • Figuring out how to revolutionize commercial publishing
  • Create art to gift to others
  • Not back down to people who threated your family
  • Meditate even for just a minute
  • Think about the future
  • Go running and try to enjoy it, even though it likely won’t happen
  • Attend a Galaxy Forum
  • Create a blog and then make an iPhone app for that blog
  • Play with your youngest child during your lunch break when the other kids aren’t around
  • Stretch out your legs
  • Ride a bike on a sunny day up a hill for a little exercise
  • Get disgusted by walking in on your creepy female office landlord looking at porno
  • Drive 100 miles round trip to meet with potential clients who might have work you find somewhat boring
  • Read a certain popular blogger who shares your initials, who kind of bugs you but has good ideas anyway
  • See how long you can last not eating anything
  • Try to translate a song you know by heart into a language you were once fluent in but not anymore
  • Call the cable company to stop your cable service
  • Go hiking with your family somewhere high up surrounded by trees
  • Go seashell gathering after a large winter swell hits a beach near you
  • Watch a good film instead
  • Hope to god your friends who let you house sit for them make their home available the next time school gets out
  • Check out the kind of art your kids are doing
  • Get a vasectomy and enjoy a new lease on your love wife with your spouse, especially if you have too many kids to handle