Say “No” to the “I’ll Do It Later” Mentality
by Charlie on February 25, 2008 in Productivity
Stop Procrastinating. I’m sure you all have experienced this problem multiple times in your blogging career. You know you have to work on your blog, but as soon as you open up Microsoft Word, your blog stops becoming appealing to you, and you want to venture into new activities. Perhaps surfing the web, watching videos on Youtube, checking e-mail. Then you look at the time, and you realize it’s been an hour since you started, and you haven’t gotten anything done. This basically sums up how I’ve felt the past few days (note: the most recent post was posted days ago). Today, I’ve been on a sort of nostalgia ride, watching music videos of old bands for a straight hour.
Well, I’m in high school, and it’s the most opportune time for me to make use of free time to earn money, but unfortunately, I haven’t been maximizing my time to its fullest potential, and I’m highly regretting it. For example, I know this whole weekend, I had nothing to do, but I just “didn’t feel like working on my websites.” Honestly, I had one hour of homework in a span of 48 hours. Guess what I did this whole weekend, not including my homework? Spend less than two hours with friends, and I played Call of Duty 4 for maybe 6 hours the whole weekend. I don’t even know how I could waste so much time doing nothing. Honestly, I would surf the internet endlessly and watch TV and the cycle would continue the whole weekend.
I forgot about our little friend, SlimTimer. I stopped using it because I just stopped remembering to turn it on everyday. Boy, if I had set up my SlimTimer over the weekend, I know it’d be a massive disappointment to me. All of the hours I’ve wasted as a teenager could be put to use to help me grow my funds, and invest those funds, and watch my investments grow. So, how did I finally get up the grit to write this post?
I just decided to sit down, relax, and go on Word and start writing. My key is: do not open Firefox or IE, not even when you are trying to get inspiration, just start writing. I don’t even want you to think about anything else. Once you start writing, you will get on a streak like I am now. It feels so good, by the way, to write endlessly into the distance, typing at the speed of light. Sorry if I’m boring you with my life journal for today, but it’s just a realization I discovered to get me in the mood to write. In fact, you shouldn’t even be reading this. Now, it’s your turn to go and write!
Wow, I still have to add some more words. This post is giving me ideas for writing five new posts. I’m probably going to write a couple of them tonight.
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Allen Taylor
Don’t ever call Call of Duty 4 wasting time! That’s scarilege!
It’s funny — I’m kind of in the “I’ll do it later” zone right now, but not when it comes to writing. I work for a number of blogs and have been banging out more posts per day than I have in ages. But when it comes to backend stuff — promotion, emails, etc.., I’ve totally slacked off. I have people who have been waiting to hear back from me for weeks, but I just can’t find the motivation to tackle it. Same for site promotion.
I’m also wanting to get two new projects off the ground, both of which are falling victim to this.
In unrelated news (though related to this post) I’ve recently taken the role of mostly stay-at-home dad, so I think I’ll fire up SlimTimer to see how I’m handling most of my new day.