Category: lifehack, Theory What are you doing here?
Stop reading and get back to work. I realized yesterday while reading blogs and wasting a bit of time, what is really contributing to my bottom line.
Bottom line: Evaluate the things you spend time on during your day and where/what you really get value out of.
This has been a non-sponsored message by the time wasters at Sketchfu.com, draw it…FOO!
Bonus Productivity Tip: Don’t bring your power adapter home at night. I have been doing this lately and it limits my time to work and helps me focus on the essentials. Tim would call it Parkinson’s law.
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16 Responses to “What are you doing here?”
July 3rd, 2007
10:02 am
My experience has always been that if you don’t carefully manage your time, you will waste it. This is especially true if you work in an interrupt-driven kind of job (basically anything in technology).
The best analogy I can think of is the financial planner who tells you to stop buying that mocha at Starbucks every day — it saves you $70-80 per month and you hardly miss it. Saving anything (time, money, energy) often comes by making small behavioral changes.
July 3rd, 2007
10:05 am
Charles,
Luckily Mint.com can show you how much you spend and ways to save. Love the plugging?
It’s hard to manage time and I am not sure if everyone is like me with massive ADD where I get distracted quite easily. I am trying to to spend more time focusing on 1 at a time.
July 3rd, 2007
11:26 am
Fine, I’ll remove okdork.com from my Google Reader
July 3rd, 2007
11:28 am
Don’t you Fing dare Atish. I will have to hurt you real bad, in Pong!!!!!
July 3rd, 2007
11:33 am
Umm…last time I checked your ass was too busy for pong yesterday…
July 3rd, 2007
11:37 am
Atish,
Why are you looking at my ass? I do appreciate it!
July 3rd, 2007
11:42 am
Do you really want me to answer that question on a public message board?
Bottom line: Evaluate the things you spend time on during your day and where/what you really get value out of.
I hope this conversation on work time is worth it.
July 4th, 2007
1:06 am
That may very well be the smartest GTD tip ever
July 4th, 2007
6:56 am
Haha nice short and sweet post … I will admit to following one other piece of Ferriss advice: Limit the time/place that you do these time-expanding activities, i.e., so only check blogs once a day at 7 p.m. rather than every 20 minutes while avoiding real work
July 4th, 2007
7:40 am
IS THIS A PRIVET FORUM ,,IF IT NOT, ILL COMMENT ABOUT HOW WASTNG A PERSONS TIME SUCKS LATER. I THINK ILL GO FISHING !!!!!!!!!!!!
July 4th, 2007
8:42 pm
I would love to comment but I am too busy working.
July 5th, 2007
9:55 pm
hey noah, great tip about the power adaptor thing. last month i started working a real day job, and i have crazy ADD at work.
every 5 minutes, i’ll switch between doing real work and: reading blogs, checking adsense, checking email, diving into aim, etc.
when i really want to strap down and get work done, i’ve found that if i unplug my mouse from my laptop, im less inclined to switch between random tasks simply b/c using a touchpad is a b*tch compared to a real mouse.
July 11th, 2007
2:14 am
actually it turns out that i’m not really a very productive person, and as a matter of fact i get a lot more done by reading your blog and stealing all your good ideas, rather than trying to do any of my own original thinking.
so if i evaluate as you suggest: i realize i should work less, read/plagiarize more.
and thus, here i am
(ps – i think we should start calling Atish “AtFish”, and then we can use all sorts of creative symbols to mock him online…. @ish, @fish, @fishing, etc)
July 11th, 2007
2:16 am
What about calling him @ss
July 12th, 2007
12:20 am
Wow in my days, I’ve been given a lot of nicknames (including !tish). But I’ve never heard AtFish/@Fishing – well done.
Kagan, if you’re gonna go that far, why not @$$?
August 12th, 2007
6:39 pm
Another late post, but I’ve just been exposed to the virus known as okdork.com. Making an appointment with the doctor to get that taken of…
I started leaving my power adapter at work, which limited the work I was doing once I got home. Great suggestion. However, just this week, I caved and asked I.S. for a second adapter…so now I can leave one at home, but only in order to read through okdork.com.
What the hell have I done?
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