I agree with you, some tmes (most of the time lately) i was a lot of time just checking email, facebook, twitting, random browsing. Then when i check the time i have spend most of my productive hours, and im exhausted with no interest in starting up my projects or study ( i have about 2 certification seems trying to get and i just put social first). aaaaah

But now that i accidentally found your blog (on one of my random browsing). I started to think why we do this?

I think one aswers is the fact we work from home. Freelancers, consultants and enterprenuars. This is the problem, we cut of from the normal social interaction that we get at an office, so we are just humans, and we need that conection of camaredy to fullfilll that need. Im not saying we are needy people, and I’m perfectly find working at my home office and love the peace of been quite and alone while i work (which i cannot get in an office environment), but the fact that we are not constrain by time (we are our own boss and hours), well that also doesn’t help.

I guess at one point we have to do what you did, and acknowledged that this is waste of time, and make a list of TO DO THINGS AND STICK TO IT.

Well so right now im closing all my tabs and going to write an email im suppose to be writing to a potential client, instead of doing what im doing right now.. lol. see. aaaah.

PS. Sorry, i did not checkspell..

However, I think a person who makes their living online needs to surf and look around from time to time in order to see what is happening out there. The KEY is learning to control and limit it ….

Thanks for this post. I read it, and for some reason it kind of inspired me.

I think I’ll try cutting down on my internet time as well.

Regards,
Steve

Haha, you can probably put on a timer or something for a given electrical outlet so that there’s no power for the computer during the night. But, that doesn’t stop you if you have a laptop. I guess the best “device” is to unlearn the need to sit at the computer late at night. But hey, that’s a hard one :)

At first I congratulated myself that at least I wasn’t wasting time watching the TV. Now, I realize that watching TV for a little while before I go to bed lets me wind down for the night. Tweeting till bedtime means I go to bed wide awake with my mind racing - and, of course, all the programs that I like to watch have long since finished.

Maybe what we need is for someone to invent a device that automatically turns the computer off for the night, and won’t let it restart till the next day.

Anybody know where I can find one?

Good tips! I usually go for a walk in the evening and usually it makes me more focused when I sit down to work or generally try to do stuff.

The funny thing is that this week I’ve actually been able to get a lot of stuff done in the evenings - without figuring out exactly why.

This whole Motivation vs. Procrastination thing is weird :)