{"id":35425,"date":"2018-08-29T19:33:17","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T23:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/?p=35425"},"modified":"2018-08-29T19:33:17","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T23:33:17","slug":"organizing-my-streaming-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/2018\/08\/29\/organizing-my-streaming-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"Organizing my streaming schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"Streaming shows, movies, and videos on the internet have been a plague to my GPA efforts in previous years. YouTube rabbit holes, seasonal anime, Netflix\u00a0binges - you name it. These have been the number-one source of wasted time during school for me.\r\n\r\n\"\"<\/a>\r\n\r\nThis post is about how I've come to manage this habit without cutting it out of my routine at all.\r\n\r\nSet a time limit<\/strong>\r\n\r\nI'm the type of person who becomes obsessed with things that I've taken interest in. This translates to academic doom when that obsession happens to be a series.\r\n\r\nSo, one of the solutions that I came up with is a streaming schedule.\r\n\r\nAllotting\u00a0specific blocks of time in my day\/week to allow for a guilt-free, long, lazy binge. By organizing my commitments around this scheduled downtime, I can effectively prevent my lack of control when it comes to streaming shows\/movies from impacting my academic performance.\r\n\r\nMake a queue<\/strong>\r\n\r\nI've found that watching multiple shows at once can keep me watching, say, Netflix, for many more hours at a time than if I were only to be invested in a single show.\r\n\r\nKeeping a queue for all of the shows I want to watch and only allowing myself to watch one at a time really helps. I get bored of streaming much sooner when I'm only watching one thing.\r\n\r\nWhich sort of brings me to my\u00a0next idea...\r\n\r\nStay on one platform<\/strong>\r\n\r\nThe same principle applies here. I can't be allowing myself to jump onto YouTube after getting bored of Netflix.\r\n\r\nBy limiting my platform usage, I limit the amount of content\u00a0that I can consume. This leads to me reaching boredom sooner than later, and, hopefully, moving onto more productive activities as well.\r\n\r\nHow much time do I allow myself\u00a0<\/strong>\r\n\r\nI usually allow myself about 1.5-2 hours on weeknights to watch movies, shows, YouTube, or whatever I'm into at the time. For weekends, I schedule 4 hours, which are usually broken-up throughout the day.\r\n\r\nI know it might seem like a lot, but I find it better to schedule more time for events\/tasks than I actually need to. This creates more \"free-time\" to do other things.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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