Yay… only a few more days ’til this amazing game is released and my productivity drops to zero for a few weeks!!
While I may be excited about its release, it also shows a rather big weakness in my… “work ethic”. I believe this “weakness” is one many online business owners, especially the younger ones, share.
What this highlights for me is the need to push ahead and put together a “work only” zone: ideally, this would include a computer set up in the basement with no games, no TV, and possibly even no internet access.
When you’re doing projects where time doesn’t matter, stay upstairs with all its distractions, but if you need to type something up or read an ebook, then go downstairs.
For example: I recently spent 1.5 months rewriting content for a new ebook, and I spent maybe 4 evenings a week and most mornings working on this thing. Yet at the end of the day, it was only 61 pages long - and since it was all rewritten, it really should have taken me maybe 1-2 weeks.
How did that happen? Well between watching TV shows, chatting on MSN and finally Halo 3, I was pretty lucky to do 1 hour of work out of every 4 that I sat in front of the computer.
Distractions suck!
November 12th, 2007 at 4:16 pm
this is the mac fan boy in me. But in the past 2 week Mac OS X leopard has been great at eliminating distractions. I use Space to keep all email, ichat, and other outside connections in one space, and super work mode related apps in another. So i can essentially shut out all distractions in one click.
I personally started a TV fast. I often found i was running out of time to write or read, because of awesome shows. I have gone without tv for a week now, and i have gotten so much done its amazing. I finished 2 books and started one article, as well as an autobiography.