No News September begins

It is here.

No News September. 

The month that is peculiar only to me and would have sounded better if it had been No News November for the alliteration. But it just happened to be around this time, a few years back, that I felt I needed to clear my head and not read news, so September it is.

Plus I have a graphic so I am primed.

And kind of excited to see how it goes. It went very, very well last year. So much so I thought I might do it forever but I slipped.

No News September! Where I attempt to avoid the news and if I do find myself slipping, ie doom-scrolling, I hope to realise what I am doing, stop it at once! and do something else. 

What is even better about No New September is it will give me more time to think about my new book, since I am not...

Watching the news

Reading the news

Scrolling the news

Listening to the news.

Getting distraught by the news.

Getting outraged by the news.

When I'm waiting for the bus, instead of scrolling, I can ponder my book. If I have to sit in a doctor's waiting room and they have a print paper, I avoid it because in my bag will be a magazine with puzzles.

If colleagues at work discuss the latest geo-political drama, then I shove in my earbuds and not get caught up in it. 

If I am out with friends for dinner, and news comes up, well, I do think it is highly rude to say, "Don't speak about the news because I am so precious and I have given up the news." Rude! Instead I will see if I can nod in agreement but be dreaming of hitting the Number One spot on Amazon.  

No News September means doing more than just avoiding a newspaper though. For example: even going on social media is going to expose me to the news. So that will have to be watched.

Same for the internet in general. I did make it here to Blogger without having to see a headline so that is something positive. In fact, I may take it wider than the news, and include, "Utter crap I do not need to fill my one-and-only brain with."

NO NEWS SEPTEMBER BEGINNETH!!

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