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Update on Digital Minimalism

I am sorry, readers, but some things aren't working out when I came back home. After skimming some parts of Charles Duhigg's The Power of Habit, he mentions a really important part of habit. When you go back to your old environment where you fostered this old habit, which is usually bad, you might go back to this old habit. I am back home and not completely the same in a good way. I no longer feel the urge to sneakily use other computers to read blogs or check my email an extra time. I don't have the compulsion to check the news. But still, I can be distracted.  When I did this in the hotel room, I had little distractions. Well, the main reason is because I didn't need a computer except for blogging. It was either finish a book or do nothing. Because I was on vacation, I didn't need to do any academic work on the computer. Now, I have to use the computer for work and school. The small urges to search up this thing, can end up sucking up some time. Although it may relate to my work, it isn't NECESSARY. I might as well restart my 30 day challenge because technically I kind of cheated by using Google when I didn't need to use it. Directly saying "No" to myself is hard. As long as I keep connecting back to the idea of digital minimalism and remind myself of the important blog I read, things may get better.
I think I should not be impatient with this problem and understand I can't solve it in one day.
For those that are wondering what is wrong with using Google, you can end up searching something irrelevant and reading bunch of articles from the search and then look at endless images of the search. 
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