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A little while ago I started a little experiment. For a quick review I decided that I would severely limit the big time sucks of my day, namely Facebook, Chess.com, and of course email.  So after a little over a month of trying this out how is this working for me?

Honestly, some days are better than others.  Really some weeks are better than others, but over all I’d like to think that I’ve done well with my self imposed limitations.  I check Facebook a couple times a day and Chess.com only once a day maybe a second time at night before I go to sleep.

My email is a little bit more tricky.  Sometimes my job requires me to check my email quite a bit to stay up to date on things that are going on at the site.  For the most part though I feel really good about what I’ve been able to do.

Now for the flip side. I’ve found other ways to waste my time. I now search out more articles to read. A lot of them are about software development, entrepreneurship, and business development so I give myself a walk on those, but I still look up a lot of crap.  A lot of crap that is not Facebook, chess, or email (gold star for me!).

I figure I am like a lot of people and I tend to procrastinate.  If there’s something I dread or that I’m really not looking forward to I tend to find something to divert my time.  Like looking up old John Prine performances on YouTube, planning (read: daydreaming) for our trip to Chile, hunting down music videos of my new internet crush, or writing a blog post instead of working on my teams pitch/presentation for 48 Hour Launch this weekend. *cough**cough*

To recap, I’ve done well within the parameters of what I defined as success.  Yay me!

The bad part is that I’m still a lazy procrastinating slacker. Dangit!

Who knew?