Nine o'clock. The remote's already in your hand.
You're not picking anything. You're just going to have something on. That's the phrase you'd use. Have it on.
A guy in a discipline forum wrote down a question he started asking before he pressed play. Two hundred people liked it, which tells you something. Am I actually going to watch this, or am I just going to be near it.
He called it a stupid small question. Then he said the part that matters. Half the time the honest answer was no. He was just going to be near it. And once he'd said that out loud, he didn't want it anymore.
Look at what the question doesn't ask. It doesn't ask you to stop. It doesn't ask what's wrong with you. It asks which of two things you're about to do, and only one of them is watching.
Near it. That's the whole evening, some nights. Near the show. Near the game. Near the people in the room, for that matter.
You'd know the difference if anyone made you say it.
The one thing:
Tonight, before the thing comes on, say the sentence. Watching it, or near it.
Whichever answer you get, notice that you didn't have to think.
Josh
P.S. I finished my 30-day Ash Journal run on July 30. In public, one page a day, no edits, all thirty.
Five minutes. One prompt. One line of ash. The first seven days are free: truevitalyou.com/journal