From double-speed podcasts to buying magazines: six media tips to improve your life, via IrishTimesBiz
A change is as good as a holiday, as they always used to say on Home and Away, and while living next to a giant beach might have rendered the inhabitants of Summer Bay complacent about the restorative power of holidays, the point still stands.Start by channelling your inner Tom Cruise and feel the need, the need for speed — and if the controls of a fighter jet are not within immediate reach, apply that principle to your podcast playback settings instead.
Get up earlier, then use that time to watch TV. Early rising is seen as synonymous with productivity, martyrdom and yoga, but why should that be? So while many viewers perform regular “housekeeping” on their hard drives and delete recorded programmes, watched or not, my advice is to flirt with a full set-top box at all times. Let stuff fester on it for years and years, while you still have that modicum of control.
Can magazine brands survive on frenzied Instagram activity alone? I suspect we will soon find out. In the meantime, throw a glossy into your basket for whenever your screentime statistics need trimming back or your arms grow tired from too much Bono. Naturally, this ambition will be much easier to achieve if there is a toddler in your household getting you up anyway — also, toddlers are huge fans of Dictionary Corner.I am available for this purpose. Being hate-read has long been an entire mode of career for successful people and I would like to be successful. It’s true that I haven’t declared sympathy for sex traffickers lately, nor have I denied climate change or claimed fascists are just a bit misunderstood.
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