For a day in a half, my laptop was off. I was left with my Blackberry, which I am convinced that I am secretly in a relationship with and can’t seem to shake. Yet that was not enough, I needed my laptop, but I knew I needed a break, because I was showing symptoms of the disease called Procrastination. I was internet surfing, Facebooking, and blogging too much and nothing was getting accomplished. I’m not saying these tasks cause procrastination, but sometimes it can be a time waster if not used properly. So I have conducted my list of three things that make me procrastinate to help me before I need to go on medication, hospitalization, or rehabilitation.
1) The internet - If I have spent more than an hour surfing and nothing productive has come out of it, I am in procrastination mode. If I am completing a report, researching information, and I haven’t come close to completing it, I need to stop and move on to the next task. Time has officially been wasted.
2) Facebook – If I find myself spending hours upon hours reading profiles, walls, commenting on walls, and looking at pictures…..sorry to say I am procrastinating. I am especially wasting time if on a friend’s wall there is a tagged photo and I can see someone else’s pictures and I am viewing them like a voyeur, I am definitely wasting time. Actually, I need help with the voyeurism dysfunction.
3) Blogging – If I am blogging all times of the day, when I really have nothing to say….sorry, I need help. Especially, if I am viewing my stats to see how many people visited my blog and what site they come from and checking to see if I have comments. This is a definite symptom of a need for some serious therapy. If your blog is good, people will read it.
I hope my list can help someone to stop procrastinating. It has definitely helped me to give myself internet/Facebook/Blogging free days, to live a procrastinating free life.
