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I love Lost.

I do a little thing with my friends, where I tell them to go through two exercises with me. First, I ask them to write down everything that is most important to them in life (family, friends, health, faith, Twix bars, whatever), and also what their goals are in life (retire at 55, start a successful business, eat an entire VW Beetle, etc.). Then, I have them carefully monitor how they spend their time in an average day. When both lists are made, we compare the two, and see how well the things they SAY are absolutely most important to them mesh with how they are spending their time. Usually they aren't very well in synch, and usually the easiest and biggest chunk of time to carve out and put towards better use is time spent absent-mindedly watching television.

I don't mean to say that spending five hours watching TV every day is inherently bad. If watching a ton of TV is on your list of the most important things to accomplish in life, great. If it isn't though, then being more aware of your television watching time and limiting yourself to specific shows, and turning the TV off when they aren't on, is probably a good thing. What could YOU do with an extra 20-40 hours every week?

I know if I hadn't taken control of my TV viewing years ago, I would have never been able to get my degree, support a family, work full time, and be involved with webcomics successfully. That being said, I'm sure looking forward to Hell's Kitchen tomorrow night. I prefer the time I do watch TV to be filled with fascinating human psychology experiments like that.