You were not meant to live in constant input.
Endless feeds. Endless opinions. Endless urgency. Your focus was stolen, slowly, politely, and legally.
Internet Fasting is a countermove. A conscious withdrawal from distraction. Not to escape the world, but to re-enter it with clarity, power, and intention.
This is not a book that tells you the internet is bad and you should never go online again. I love the internet. I earned my first money online in 1999 and have never stopped. All my companies are internet companies. This is a book that shows you how to disconnect on purpose, so your real life can finally come back online.
Who would you be if you spent most of your time offline for the next 12 months?
“Eelco, you were right.”
About ten years ago I had a client. An influencer who spent his days responding to everything, posting constantly, arguing in the comments for days. When I warned him about social media, he resisted. He told me he owed a large part of his career to it.
A few years later he admitted he was addicted. He checked Twitter at four in the morning on his way back from the bathroom. During meals. While shopping. At the gym. In the car. On vacation. Even during conversations with other people.
Then one day he sent me a message: “Eelco, you were right. I risked everything for my internet addiction. I ruined my relationship, I got divorced, I lost my children, I lost good friends, and it made me miserable. All because of social media.”
His addiction cost him the people he loved most. And the whole time, he never even realized he was addicted.
A personal question.
If you look back in five years at this moment, at this day you finished reading this, what would you want to have done? To have waited? To have doubted? To have done it “later”?
Or would you want to have made that decision today? To have taken that courageous step? To have started Internet Fasting and changed your life?
You already know the answer.
This is not the end. This is the beginning of a new chapter in your life. A chapter in which you set the rules. In which you choose how you spend your time, and with whom.
I’ve given you everything I have. All my experiences, all my workarounds, all my insights. The rest is up to you.
So flip that switch. Go offline. And start living. I’ll see you on the other side.
Eelco de Boer
Disconnect to connect. Break the connection to make the connection. Your magical life is waiting.