I can’t tell you how to live your life. I can only relay how I am managing to find balance in my own life. Begin by turning off the TV and the Internet regularly. You don’t have to go 100%, just consciously do it on a regular basis. Then find a book or two to read. It can be anything that interests you. It will take you a while to build up the muscles you need to read, so be patient. Then just start journaling along the way in a physical or digital notebook. Do this for a couple weeks or couple months, then take note in how you feel.
Reading and Writing Is How You Will Find Your Way by Kin Lane
Kin Lane reiterates why reading a book is the answer. This same message is carried by Audrey Watters too:
Get off the Internet and read a book. Read it in paperback or hardcover. Read a digital version. Listen to it read out loud to you by the author or by a voice actor. I do not care. But read a book. This is the literacy initiative we need right now: actually fucking reading. And reading something longer than a text message or status update, to be clear.
Executive Disorder by Audrey Watters