4 posts tagged “spend less time fooling around on the net and actually spend more time working”

I cannot believe this myself. I was doing good for the last 2 weeks or so until today. I am going to stop denying the fact that the old habit of aimlessly web surfing and online gaming has returned and I am terribly ashamed. The Escape Artist in me took over, especially today and this has been the main reason for my procrastination.

I am acutally going to make it a point: I am not to come online until I'm done with my main goal.
(With the exception of checking my seating plans and horoscope-might be ocd)
I've been pretty good at staying off and being unactive in friendster, myspace and facebook. Now, I need to get off those web games, youtube, productivity blogs and sadly, 43things till I am done. I cannot afford to allow this to be in the way of what I want to achieve in life.

I have definitely improved. Instead of channeling the excess energy I have to games like solataire, I read a page of a book or leave the laptop to do something else while waiting for it to load. Also, I am on this cycle where I have the battery charged instead of plugging it in to a powerpoint, so that the next time I use it, I can only use till the battery runs out. This means I have lesser time on the laptop in which I cannot do much with it apart from what I set out to do. I have also restricted myself to only come online twice a day. So far, this has been working well!

This has gotten tougher for me. Especially when the pages that I wish to view are loading snail mail slow. When this happens, I have the tendency to open up another web page, usually a short game or spider solataire and start clicking away. I get carried away sometimes and this has obviously affected me negatively. I spend more than the required time needed online. This builds up and the rest is history. I guess this is curently one of my procrastination triggers. I also realised that I just need to stop fooling around in general,not just on the net. I definitely need to do something about this considering the fact that the people around me have been telling me off. Reading my last post on this, those productivity blogs are not such a bad influence after all. That's where I'm probably going to go to get motivated and inspired again.

I’ve stopped going onto friendster, facbook and myspace for a few weeks now. However, I still have the tendency to check youtube once in awhile. Maybe I could save that for my 15 min gap that I use for breaks. Now my other new problem is getting off productivity blogs. I just can’t stop reading them. It’s about time I implement some already!