Summary

The author has canceled their home internet service despite initial concerns about maintaining their online activities and content schedule, and has found unexpected benefits in increased productivity and focus.

Abstract

Living in the country, the author faced consistent issues with slow and unreliable internet service, leading to the decision to cancel their internet connection. Despite worries about keeping up with blogging, publishing on Medium, managing online activities, and handling everyday tasks like banking and homeschool reporting, the author has adapted successfully. The lack of internet at home has resulted in a surge in draft production, a more disciplined approach to scheduling content, efficient use of available internet time, and financial savings. The author reflects on whether internet access at home is truly necessary, suggesting that life without it can be manageable and beneficial.

Opinions

The author believes that country living, despite its internet connectivity issues, offers significant advantages such as privacy and natural beauty.
There is a strong opinion that the inconvenience of poor internet service outweighs its benefits, leading to the decision to cancel it.
The author expresses concern about the impact of no home internet on their blogging career and other online commitments.
After canceling the internet, the author has found a new sense of freedom and reduced distractions, positively affecting their writing productivity.
The author is surprised and pleased with their ability to maintain a consistent content posting schedule despite the lack of home internet.
There is a sense of satisfaction in learning to use limited internet access more efficiently during work breaks.
The author views the cost savings from not having home internet as a significant advantage, comparing the expense of satellite internet to shopping at Whole Foods daily.
The author questions the necessity of home internet access, considering their current success without it, but acknowledges that it might be needed in the future.
The author invites readers to share their own experiences with internet access in rural areas and promotes their "Living the Dream Master Course" as a resource for achieving dreams and implementing learned concepts.

We Cancelled Our Internet

And I am still keeping pace with my posting schedule.

When you live in the country, there are a lot of benefits. Your neighbors aren’t living on top of you. The sunset is always beautiful. And there is plenty of space to enjoy for you and your family.

But the internet service sucks.

We have tried three internet carriers. None of them provide the speed or capacity to support my day job. Let alone everything else we do in life.

And so, we have canceled the internet again.

But this time might just be for good.

Two Main Concerns

When we finally decided to pull the plug for a final time, I had concerns. After all, I am a blogger. And most of my writing-related activities are online. And of course, there are all the other online activities like streaming tv shows (since we don’t have regular tv service), and keeping track of online banking, etc.

1-Keeping Regular, Consistent Content

My first major concern was that I would not be able to keep up my posting schedule.

I typically post once a week to my blog which is also the same day I send out my weekly email. Then, of course, there are the copious Medium stories I am trying to publish, about one a day. And then there are the other places I put stories like LinkedIn.

How was I going to keep up a regular, content schedule?

2-Every Day Internet Needs

My second concern was how would I manage some of our regular online activities like keeping track of finances or the regular reports my wife fills ours for homeschool?

After all, some of these things are so difficult for me to do on my iPhone and sometimes they are downright impossible.

How would we keep up with these everyday items?

The Freedom of No Internet

Turns out, there is a ton of freedom to not having the internet. And there have been some huge gains for me personally as we do not have the internet which was keeping me distracted in the mornings and evenings.

1-Draft Production

Since we canceled the internet, I have started writing more drafts than ever before. Most mornings, when I am writing, I complete 3–4 decent drafts that I can post later in the week. In fact, one morning when my daughters slept in on the weekend, I wrote 6 stories of 1500 words or more. It was amazing!

2-Forced to Schedule Content

Turns out, I can still get all my content up. I just have to schedule it all during my lunchtime at work. However, since I am producing so many drafts in the mornings. I have a lot to work with at lunchtime and the entire time to do so. It was very surprising that I was still getting things posted at my regular pace.

3-Using My Internet Time Wisely When I Have It

Turns out, when I only have a short window to do the things I need to do, I actually get them all done in that time frame. Check our finances, no problem. Pay some bills, done quickly. Fill our forms and reports, completed in a flash. Guess that concern is out the window too.

4-Saving Money BONUS

The other nice thing is we are saving money. A lot of money. The best internet we found was satellite internet, which is about as cheap as shopping at Whole Foods every day of the week. In the end, we are saving which is good for now.

Do We Need Internet at Home?

My new burning questions, do we need the internet at home? Will we ever really need it?

Probably.

However, for now, I think we will be just fine without it.

What do you think? What is your experience with the internet for those who live in the country? Share in the responses below.

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