Spend less time fooling around on the net and more time actually working

i’ve successfully done it for the past days… that’s because i’ve been sick and needed lots of rest. now, i’m almost well…so we’ll have to see how fast i can accomplish this goal.

I am still working on this goal. I think I must really put on a schedule even the use of my laptop. Everything will work well eventually.

I added a bunch of sites to my hosts file, and every time I want to look at something during the day, I add it to the file. And I don’t switch the hosts file to something less restrictive during the evening or weekends.

I stopped by the library last night to check out what I’d missed during the day, and it only took a few minutes to get bored. That’s because the things I look out only FEEL interesting because I’m supposed to be working.

each day i spend 3 hours (the least) online… until my right shoulder hurts. and to think i’m not into research or something really important. this is merely fooling around. so much time has been wasted wandering around travel sites and FB.

but starting tomorrow, i’d give it a limit to only 1 1/2 hour.

It’s hard when I work at home and FB is the evil temptress she is, and the sound of an email coming through turns those chemicals on so I automatically divert from the serious novel I am writing!
... it’s a problem!

I think I know how to make it today. I will turn off the Internet and start working. I’ve been procrastinating. In fact, I’ve been here in 43 things for almost an hour now, shifting from this page to my blog. Let me start spending less time fooling around.

Kill the net now. Aaargh!

Jef Menguin
http://jefmenguin.com

I started using a Firefox plugin called leechblock.

I do web design, so I can’t just get away from the computer.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4476

I can right click on a time wasting page and add it to the list of disallowed sites. BUT the cool thing is, I can set a number of minutes that those sites are available (1 hr a day) or (10 min an hour), etc.

It’s kind of tricky to set up, but I love it.

Day 2 went well! I was really busy though, so I wasn’t sitting around my office much. Tomorrow I should be in my office all day, so that will be the real test of how well I can adhere. I did watch an episode of a tv show at lunch, so I’m going to have to really make sure I don’t end up replacing internet with tv. So many distractions! But at least with tv, I wouldn’t be stopping work to do so, so it’s something I could just do in the evening.

hmm

Today went great! I browsed for 1/2 hour in the morning and now I’m on minute 11 of my evening 1/2 hour. Nothing else (except of course when I was looking up informative information, such as what “subsume” means (not exactly what you would guess from knowledge of “subsumption architecture)). Anyway, this evening is going to be a fun offline time, and then hopefully tomorrow, Day 2, will go just as smoothly!